The Beginning Of 2022 Brings Some Of The Most Anticipated Speculative Fiction And Associated Micro-Genres Books. It Is Looking Good For Readers And Writers Alike, Who Want To Explore The Ample Lands Of Contemporary Fiction And Stretch Their Imagination Where New Places Are Discovered And Avant-Garde Definitions Are Mapped Of What It Is To Be Human.
Some of the debut authors too are showing their quirks. Author Sue Lynn Tan delivers a new fantasy mindscape based on Chinese mythology with Daughter of the Moon Goddess. SFF writer Sunyi Dean brings innovative fabulism to the English moors with The Book Eaters. And Sequoia Nagamatsu ponders the far future of humankind with the centuries-spanning, post-postapocalyptic debut How High We Go in the Dark.
Daughter of the Moon Goddess: A Novel, Sue Lynn Tan (HarperCollins)
A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path—where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart.
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tom Doherty Associates)
Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who one is; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for one.
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
Dr Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever-inventive ways.
