Except that Captain Warner perished in a different crash, so his unfinished business must have something to do with the missing plane Stacy’s been hired to find…Īndrea Stewart concludes her epic fantasy trilogy the Drowning Empire with the final test for Emperor Lin Sukai to prove herself worthy of holding her family’s dynasty together through her hold on bone shard magic. But Stacy is burning out on this gruesome work, and his latest assignment from the National Transportation Safety Board conjures an unexpected side effect: being haunted by a dead pilot. Vivian Shaw’s contemporary thriller follows freelance necromancer Devin Stacy, who investigates horrific plane crashes by interviewing their dead. If you’ve ever gone down a late-night rabbit hole reading deep dives about aviation mysteries, this sounds like the novella for you (and at just 140 pages, much more satisfying than the endless scroll). Her emotional journey-from her disillusionment at being forced to bear sons instead of fight on the front lines, to her slow realization that aliens are people-had me ugly-sobbing on the train. Tesh embeds the reader so deeply into the bowels of Gaea Station, which holds the last scraps of humanity fighting to avenge Earth a generation after its destruction by the alien majoda and their reality-warping Wisdom device.īut Tesh achieves this not just through plot mechanics but through Kyr herself, trained to become Gaea’s greatest warrior and unable to see anything beyond retribution.
Collected here are Hugo-winning novelette Two Hearts, in which a plucky young girl named Sooz encounters the eponymous Last Unicorn, Molly Grue, and Schmendrick the Magician and the never-before-published Sooz, which reintroduces her as a woman with another journey ahead of her.ĭespite not being a fan of space opera with a militaristic bent, nor of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game (which seems a spiritual influence on Emily Tesh’s novel debut), Some Desperate Glory has become one of my early favorites of the year. Beagle’s new book set in the world of his beloved classic The Last Unicorn carries emotional resonance for author and readers : After a protracted legal battle in which Beagle finally regained the rights to his works in 2021, this collection of two novellas does sound like returning home after a long absence.
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