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datebook.sfchronicle.com | Urban Waite
San Francisco author Jon Hickey’s debut novel centers on Mitch Caddo, a mixed-race tribal operations director navigating political and personal turmoil on a fictional Anishinaabe reservation.
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2 months ago | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Urban Waite
“Runaway Horses” by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. Translated in English by Gregory Dowling.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Evie Wyld |Urban Waite
“The Echoes” by Evie Wyld. Photo: Knopf“The Echoes,” the fascinating and brilliant new novel from award-winning writer Evie Wyld, has a ghost in it. But this is not the ghost’s story, as much as this ghost — in his search for meaning — might want it to be. “I watch Hannah,” Wyld writes in the first few pages of the novel.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Daniel O. Aleman |Urban Waite
"I Might Be in Trouble" by Daniel Aleman. Photo: Grand Central Publishing“I Might be in Trouble,” the debut adult novel from talented YA writer Daniel Aleman, might be one of the best novels ever written about being a writer … and what not to do with a dead body. From the first page, and even simply from the book jacket, the reader is meant to understand that this is a book about when things go horribly wrong.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
dualshockers.com | Urban Waite |Peter Watts |Drew Karpyshyn |Karen Traviss
Novelizations can enrich lore & characters, expand game worlds and provide deeper context for games. "Far Cry Absolution" & "Mass Effect Revelation" offer rich backstory for their respective games. Gears of War, Bioshock, & Halo adaptations expand game universes in meaningful ways.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jeff Vander Meer |Urban Waite
"Absolution" by Jeff VanderMeer Photo: MCD An early line from Jeff VanderMeer’s mind-bending latest novel, “Absolution,” reads, “Already, almost from the start, the biologists were changing, from something human in the eyes of the locals into something uncanny.” The point of this change and its origins in this part of the world, a swampy and overgrown region of the Florida Panhandle known as the Forgotten Coast, rushes toward us in the pages of VanderMeer’s novel like an aggressor, a friend,...
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Liz Moore |Urban Waite
“The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore. Photo: Riverhead Books“The God of the Woods” by bestselling author Liz Moore is a novel about class, heritage and secrets as deep and dark as the upstate New York woods. Its focus is primarily on the wealthy Van Laar family, who have a way of controlling those around them, as well as being hyperconscious of how they present and how that presentation affects their banking business.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jennine Capó Crucet |Urban Waite
“Say Hello to My Little Friend” by Jennine Capó Crucet. Photo: RiverrunTo call the novel “Say Hello to My Little Friend” by award-winning author Jennine Capó Crucet a book about Miami would be akin to calling “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville just a book about a whale. Crucet, like Melville, has created so much more than simply a novel. This is an experience.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Debbie Urbanski |Urban Waite
“After World” by Debbie Urbanski. Photo: Simon & SchusterLet’s get this out of the way: Debbie Urbanski, with her debut novel, “After World,” has created a beautiful end for the human race. The story is told through the lens of an artificial intelligence known as storyworker ad39-393a-7fbc, which has read “64,213 novels … to learn the craft of human documentation” and takes place hundreds of years in the future when a virus known only as S. has rendered all humans infertile.
