Drowned Worlds

By Jonathan Strahan (editor), James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson , Charlie Jane Anders , Ken Liu , Paul McAuley , Kathleen Ann Goonan , Jeffrey Ford , Lavie Tidhar

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We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time - the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.

Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if…

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1 author picked Drowned Worlds as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I like a good fiction anthology, and this one, which focuses on the future if we do nothing to stop human-caused climate change, is really good. It focuses on the rising seas, looking at the future in a drowned world, both good and bad. There are a number of excellent speculative fiction writers here, including my favorites, Ken Liu and Stanley Robinson.

As bad as things are getting and will get, I like to be reminded of human resilience, and most of these stories do that. Some are apocalyptic, but I need to be reminded of that as well; what…

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Broken Mirror

By Cody Sisco,

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A fractured mind or a global conspiracy? Uncovering the truth can be hell when nobody believes you… and you can’t even trust yourself. 

"A fantastic science fiction thriller with a sincere and important message.”—Kirkus Reviews. 

“A breathtaking, deeply dark alternate-history Earth with complex characters, layered worldbuilding, and twist after twist after twist.”—Julianna Caro, Reedsy Discovery.

Broken Mirror is the first volume in a queer psychological science fiction saga that looks at the stigma of mental illness and the hellish distrust and alienation that goes with it.

Broken Mirror

By Cody Sisco,

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Broken Mirror: the start of a smart, complex, and imaginative cyberpunk alternate history saga. Literary science fiction from a fresh, young voice.

In a skewed mirror universe, a mentally ill young man searches for his grandfather’s killer.

Someone killed Jefferson Eastmore. His grandson Victor is sure of it, but no one believes him.

Diagnosed with mirror resonance syndrome and shunned by Semiautonomous California society, Victor suffers from hyperempathy, blank outs, and sensory overload. Jefferson devoted his life to researching mental illness and curing Broken Mirrors like Victor through genetic engineering, but now that he’s gone, Victor must walk a narrow…


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