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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The Knives by Ed Brubaker. A gritty, character-driven noir set against the backdrop of Hollywood’s golden age of prestige television. Cartoonist Jacob Kurtz arrives in town to oversee the adaptation of his comic strip, but instead finds himself tangled in family drama and the ruthless scheming around his aunt’s estate. Meanwhile, Angie, once a child of the Undertow, has lost everything. Now she roams the streets with revenge burning in her chest, targeting the city’s most powerful criminal. And Tracy Lawless, fresh out of the special forces, returns to civilian life broken and volatile, drawn back into a city that never let him go. Three lives, one city, and a storm of secrets.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Griz Grobus by Simon Roy. A wildly inventive blend of fantasy and sci-fi comedy set on the distant colony world of Altamira. The story unfolds in two intertwined narratives: one follows a young scribe whose scholarly curiosity accidentally reboots a long-dead priest-bot in a quiet mountain village. The bot, once revered, now struggles to find relevance in a world that’s moved on, much to the dismay of the locals stuck managing his outdated zeal.
Meanwhile, within Altamira’s most beloved novel, read by the characters themselves, a war-god is cursed into the body of a goose, and a gentle cook must stall his violent return to glory. Together, these tales explore life after the fall of an interstellar empire, trading dystopian decay for quirky frontier resilience. If you loved Habitat, this is a fresh, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt expansion of that universe.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The City Where We Once Lived by Eric Barnes. A haunting, atmospheric novel set in a future reshaped by climate collapse. In the abandoned North End of a nameless city, a few thousand people remain, quietly surviving among the ruins while scavengers pick the bones of what’s left. The narrator, seeking refuge from a painful past, spends his days documenting the decay, trying to forget what he’s lost.
But isolation doesn’t last. Strangers begin to arrive—some desperate, some dangerous, bringing news of unrest and breakdown in the thriving South End. As the fragile peace of the North End begins to fracture, the narrator must decide whether to protect the solitude he’s carved out or embrace the possibility of community. In a world unraveling, what does it mean to stay, to resist, to belong?
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Above the Ether by Eric Barnes, the gripping prequel to The City Where We Once Lived. As climate catastrophe begins to reshape the country, six sets of characters navigate a world on the brink. A father and his children flee a tsunami after a devastating Gulf earthquake. A grieving couple, haunted by the loss of their sons to addiction, brace for encroaching wildfires. High above a sweltering city, an investor quietly calculates profit from disaster. In a desert refugee camp, a doctor and his wife search for purpose amid displacement. Two carnival workers wrestle with trauma and prejudice while traveling the backroads. And a fast-food manager tries to hold together a life battered by relentless wind.
Each story unfolds in a landscape shifting beneath their feet, capturing the early tremors of a society unraveling. Barnes weaves a powerful tapestry of resilience, reckoning, and the quiet choices that shape survival.
