This month is packed with new sci-fi and fantasy book releases, from the sweeping and epic to the intimate and charming.

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign ...

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