by Aliette de Bodard The continuation of the story of Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, following Servant of the Underworld (reviewed here). This time, he must investigate the deaths of prominent noblemen while navigating the labyrinthine and bloody intrigues, human and divine, surrounding the succession to the throne of the Mexica Empire.
Wasteland of Flint
, House of Reeds
, and Land of the Dead
by Thomas Harlan The first three volumes of the In The Time of the Sixth Sun series, set in an alternate history where the Aztecs and the Japanese rule Earth and its colonies in the shadow of Lovecraftian dangers. Gretchen Anderssen, xenoarchaeologist and disenfranchised descendant of defeated Sweden-Russia, finds herself drawn into the world of the Judges, those who guard the Empire from threats not-so-mundane, and the deadly politics of the Imperial Court. Meanwhile, Captain Mitsuharu Hadeishi must chart a treacherous course between the demands of honor and the realities of Fleet politics.
Space battles, Lovecraftian horror, mystery, intrigue, espionage, military honor, aliens, In The Time of the Sixth Sun is a genre-bending delight.
Echo City
by Tim Lebbon An incredibly ancient city, literally built on the past and surrounded by a lethal desert,is all there is. Or is it? As something terrible crawls up through the darkness below the city, a stranger arriving from the desert that has killed all others thrusts an exile, her former resistance colleagues, the witch/genetic engineer known as "the Baker," a hermetic cult, and a deformed spy into a race to survive the impending destruction of the city.
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