Book Pairings for Copper Moon Summer Pale Ale
Recommended Literary Pairings, including three Locus Award nominees and one book I simply enjoyed the hell out of:
Title: God's War
Author: Kameron Hurley
Nyx had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference… On a ravaged, contaminated world, a centuries-old holy war rages, fought by a bloody mix of mercenaries, magicians, and conscripted soldiers. Though the origins of the war are shady and complex, there’s one thing everybody agrees on--There’s not a chance in hell of ending it. Nyx is a former government assassin who makes a living cutting off heads for cash. But when a dubious deal between her government and an alien gene pirate goes bad, Nyx’s ugly past makes her the top pick for a covert recovery. The head they want her to bring home could end the war--but at what price? The world is about to find out.
Title: Soft Apocalypse
Author: Will McIntosh
What happens when resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? As the competition for resources pulls America’s previously stable society apart, the “New Normal” is a Soft Apocalypse. This is how our world ends; with a whimper instead of a bang. New social structures and tribal connections spring up across America, as the previous social structures begin to dissolve. Locus Award finalist and John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist Soft Apocalypse follows the journey across the Southeast of a tribe of formerly middle class Americans as they struggle to find a place for themselves and their children in a new, dangerous world that still carries the ghostly echoes of their previous lives.
Title: Eclipse Four
Author: Jonathan Strahan (editor)
Eclipse Four delivers new fiction by some of the genre’s most celebrated authors, including Andy Duncan’s tale of a man’s gamble that he can outrun a bullet; Caitlin R. Kiernan’s story of lovers contemplating the gravity of a tiny black hole; Damien Broderick’s chronicle of a beancounter who acquires a most curious cat; Michael Swanwick’s tale of the grey man who pulls an unhappy woman from the path of an oncoming train; Nalo Hopkinson’s story of ghosts haunting a shopping mall; and Gwyneth Jones’s story of an alien priest who suffers a crisis of faith...
Title: Red World
Author: Carlton Mellick III
“This story tells the tale of a recovering junky trying to save his 8-year-old brother from a life of prostitution in a surreal version of New York City--a place where street kids mutate into fish-like creatures, the homeless stilt-walk through oceans of insects, and the only colors left visible to the human eye are shades of red.” Limited edition of 100. Order direct from White Belly Press.
