![]() ![]() ![]() In their latest novel, The Echo Wife (Tor, $24.99), Gailey once again straddles genres in a story of a woman who discovers her husband has been having an affair-with her clone. Except this high school is for magical teenagers, and the down-on-her-luck private investigator sent to look into a murder on campus is decidedly not magic. It reads like a fast-paced whodunit combined with all-too-familiar high school drama. Gailey's genre-defying imagination once again shines in Magic for Liars (Tor, $17.99). In Upright Women Wanted (Tordotcom, $20.99), Gailey once again proves an ability to pack a slim tale with outsized action and adventure, this time in an imagined future America in which Librarians run state-sanctioned materials between territories-and smuggle a few contraband items along the way. (This was an actual plan presented to Congress as a possible solution to food shortages during the Civil War, though it was never implemented.) The novella reads something like an old western, with Winslow Houndstooth and a ragtag crew of assistants contracted to take back the hippo-run bayou. The premise seems far-fetched at first: the story is set during an alternate American Civil War the government bred hippos in the marshlands of Louisiana, failing to account for their brutality and resulting in bayous overrun with feral hippos by the late 19th century. ![]() I first came to Sarah Gailey's work when I read their debut novel, River of Teeth (St. ![]()
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