My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August: The Free SciFi and Fantasy Giveaway.Nearly 125 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.Bishop to c4...Get your FREE preview of Bishop’s Opening!Battlestar Galactica meets Game of Thrones.A gritty sci-fi universe. Flawed characters. A chance at redemption.The prequel episode to the Scions of Oth series.Smugglers. Contraband. And an old flame.Captain Jerald Norim is revered by his crew. But he's a flawed man. And his flaws are coming back to haunt him.On June 22, at Locus Awards Weekend, the Locus Science Fiction Foundation revealed the winners readers and fans had selected for the 2024 Locus Awards.Thanks for reading The Cosmic Codex! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Here are the award winners for science fiction books.Science Fiction NovelSystem Collapse, by Martha WellsHugo and Nebula award winner Martha Wells is a native of Texas. She published her first novel in 1993. System Collapse is the seventh novel in her popular series The Murderbot Diaries.The Macmillan website describes System Collapse as follows:Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast!Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.Thanks for reading The Cosmic Codex! This post is public so feel free to share it.Young Adult NovelPromises Stronger Than Darkness, by Charlie Jane AndersCharlie Jane Anders has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards. She is a Washington Post science fiction and fantasy book critic, and the co-founder and former publisher of Other Magazine. She also won the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel last year, with her book Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak.Promises Stronger Than Darkness is the final novel of her Unstoppable trilogy.Here is MacMillan’s summary of Promises Stronger Than Darkness:When Elza became a space princess, she thought she'd be spending her time at the palace, wearing gorgeous couture and soaking up everything there is to know—but instead, she's on the run, with everyone hunting for her and her friends.Rachael followed her best friend Tina on the adventure of a lifetime—but now Tina's gone, and Rachael's the only one keeping her friends together, as they go on a desperate quest to save everyone from an ancient curse.Rachael, Elza and their friends have found one clue, one shining mysterious chance to stop the end of the world. And that takes them back to the second-to-last place they'd want to be: enlisting the aid of Captain Thaoh Argentian, the woman who stole Tina's body (and who now seems to be relishing a second chance at teenage chaos and drama, instead of living up to her legacy of an intrepid heroic commander). With only a ragtag band of misfits, crewmates, earthlings, friends, lovers (and one annoying frenemy), the Unstoppable Crew are up against the universe--and they soon find that in order to survive, they may have to cross a line they vowed never to cross.Club Codex is reading and discussing The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith through the end of August.Follow along with my thoughts on this novel and contribute your own in the following thread:Click here for more details about Club Codex in 2024. Please join us!Questions or comments? Please share your thoughts! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thecosmiccodex.com
