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RECENT WEIRDNESS

TEMPEST RISING by Nicole Peeler (Hachette, $7.99) It’s not every day you find out you’re only half human—but that’s the wakeup call Jane True gets one watery, winter night. Jane’s discovery of her supernatural selkie heritage (one of urban fantasy’s rarer myths!) opens the door to a seductive new world full of powerful vampires, healing dogs, and a dangerously tempting genie’s lamp.

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WORMWOOD, NEVADA by David Oppegaard (St. Martin’s Press, $24.99) Nothing disrupts the bumbling sanctity of earthly existence like a visitor from space. In Oppegaard’s latest, the invader in question is a meteorite that sets off a chain reaction of apocalyptic paranoia among Wormwood’s doomsday prophets, alien cultists, meth dealers, and the poor couple at the heart of it all.

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MADNESS OF FLOWERS by Jay Lake (Night Shade Books, $14.95) Battles may be fought and won, but greed and corruption will endure. Lake (who’ll return to WT in the next issue!) approaches this fatalistic outlook with aplomb, filling Madness with adventure, political intrigue, and outlandish characters, including a godlike dwarf, a beautiful tomb raider, and a living dead man.