Breach of Containment by Elizabeth Bonesteel (June 30th)
Earlier this month, I noted that Elizabeth Bonesteel reacquired the rights to her novels The Cold Between and Remnants of Trust, and has republished them under herself. The next installment in the series is Breach of Containment (She’s since written a fourth installment, Condition of War).
I’m a big fan of these books: they’re really excellent space operas, and I’m excited to see that she’s got full control over them. If you’re looking for one of those “hidden gem” type of books, these are some good ones.
A City Dreaming by Maurice Broaddus (June 30th)
Maurice Broaddus completes his Astra Black trilogy (preceded by Sweep of Stars and Breath of Oblivion). This has been a sweeping afrofuturist space opera, set in the Munungano Empire, a pan-African federation that spread into the solar system in the 2050s. In the first novel, we followed a leader, soldiers, and a starship captain as they worked to figure out their place in this world, and in the second, Broaddus carried those threads forward as they faced a range of new threats – not only to themselves, but to their civilization.
In this final installment, the Muunago faces its greatest threat: The Interstellar Alliance is bearing down on them and a war is brewing in our solar system and beyond.
Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, saying “Broaddus is unafraid to tackle big questions, such as the nature of consciousness, but never sacrifices plot development for exposition. Few current authors can match the ambitious imagination of this powerful and thought-provoking trilogy.”
This is Where the Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks (June 30th)
Mike Brooks is back with a new fantasy novel: Kitt Carver is a skilled diviner who caters to his world’s rich and powerful, telling them their destinies. Things go sideways when one of her brokers is killed, almost taking her out at the same time.
It seems that one of the destinies she came across isn’t sitting well with some unpleasant people, and she gathers up a motley crew, including a childhood friend-turned duelist, and they set off to track down the person with the destiny to give them a heads up. What she doesn’t know is that she has her own destiny, and it could spell everyone else’s ruin.
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Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
