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I'm helping to launch Andy Southall's new science fiction novel "Perfect World" - the third book in his science fiction trilogy - at 3pm on Sunday 17th May at Johnsonville Community Centre, Wellington.

Check out more about the book and the trilogy on Andy's website, https://andy-southall.com/

Hope you'll come along to the launch!

@bookstodon #Johnsonville #Waitohi #Wellington #books #booklaunch #nzbooks #ScienceFiction

I reviewed Mike Joy's memoir "The Fight For Freshwater" for the December issue of Takahē Magazine. It's a really good read – and Mike has had a fascinating life in all sorts of interesting ways. My review: https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-fight-for-freshwater-a-memoir/ #nzbooks #environment #pukapuka #nzpol #books @bookstodon #water #tetaiao

Nothing to See by Pip Adam 👯‍♀️ Peggy and Greta are navigating day to day life while staying sober, in a world that would prefer not to admit they exist.
https://www.librarything.com/work/25307607/
#QueerSFF2023
#NZBooks

Tahou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall 🐟 These past, present and future stories of Aotearoa and Coastal Salish lands made proximate include several lesbian couples.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29414884/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #NZBooks #AlternateGeography #IndigiQueer #Takatāpui @sapphicbooks

How to Get a Girlfriend When You're a Terrifying Monster by Marie Cardno 👾 A magic researcher ventures into the Endless, a bit of the Endless follows her back. Short and sweet.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28568460/ #QueerSFF2023
#WLWFiction #NZBooks @sapphicbooks

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by AJ Fitzwater 🏴‍☠️ A collection of whimsical tales about the adventures of a lesbian capybara pirate.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24335636/ #QueerSFF2022 And done, Happy New Year from Aotearoa!
#Anthropomorphism #Capybara #TransBooks #NZBooks @sapphicbooks

Na Viro by Gina Cole ☄️ is Pasifkafuturism, set between a floating village in Fiji, a waterlogged Tamakimakaurau, and in space where a giant whirlpool phenomenon has opened, forcing Tia, to leave off mapping the great Moana and go into space to rescue her sister and prevent a great wrong. Tia is dealing with her feelings of abandonment by her mother and her crush on the latest iteration of the artificial entity Turukawa. https://www.librarything.com/work/28400966/ #QueerSFF2022 #NZBooks

Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka 🪶 A reimagining of Māori myth Hatupatu and the Bird Woman, this gorgeous tête-bêche printed book follows the eponoymous Kurangaituku to the underworld where she is seduced by Hinenuitepō. https://www.librarything.com/work/27354885/ #QueerSFF2022

Kurangaituku won the New Zealand Fiction book award this year and there are much better reviews out there of it than mine https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-01-2022/transformation-a-takatapui-response-to-whiti-hereakas-novel-kurangaituku https://www.ketebooks.co.nz/all-book-reviews/kurangaituku-r7csy #NZBooks