Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera is well worth checking out. Fiction Unbound dives into this science fiction story about an intergalactic Eurovision contest that will determine the fate of humanity.
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Rounding out our coverage of the 2017 Hugo winners, with special congratulations to Lois McMaster Bujold for winning the first-ever "Best Series" Hugo Award.
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"The Expanse" frightens and thrills with a plot as old as literature: an unstoppable monster threatens to kill everyone but is resisted by imperfect heroes.
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