Staff Picks: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Paul Di Filippo recommends The Vanished Birds: “Simon Jimenez’s touching, bold, surprising, gorgeous debut novel—a certain manner of postmodern space opera, despite the fantasy-resonant title—is not only the best debut novel I’ve read in ages, but simply one of the best SF novels in recent memory.”

Check out Paul’s full review online and Gary K. Wolfe’s review online or in the April 2020 issue of Locus.

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