Books Received, November 23 — November 29

[james_davis_nicoll]

Just three new books this week.

Books Received, November 23 — November 29

Poll #32286 Books Received, November 23 — November 29

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

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Which of these look interesting?

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The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older (June 2025)
31 (64.6%)

Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi (May 2025)
19 (39.6%)

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang (May 2025)
27 (56.2%)

Some other option (see comments)
2 (4.2%)

Cats!
36 (75.0%)

Comments

[thomasyan]

I'm hugely enjoying the books, but the mystery of how the rings/rails on Giant work is bewildering.

[mecurtin]

A particularly good set! possibly because it's so small...

[(Anonymous)]

Tochi Onyebuchi is an author known in ISFDB, but it isn't evident that this is "fantasy", as it may be, except for publisher Macmillan saying that it is. They also say it's "post-colonial" Africa, which is slightly unclear since wherever this is in (West) Africa, the French are still occupying. I suppose that that isn't unheard of. I'm not satisfied either with descriptions that I can call on of "Bambara" people and language, but in that context it appears that "dugulen" means village people, unless I've gone wrong. And the Harmattan is a seasonal wind in West Africa, and not a parallel universe version of Manhattan.

Robert Carnegie