Pedro the Vast

Pedro the VastSimn Lpez Trujillo's "mind blowing" (Gabriela Cabezn Cmara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts its own resistance . . . In the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of Lpez Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for

and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness

when you ask for rest

Finding the magic reserve might be her only key to freedom

everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm

In order to reclaim this inheritance for her people

Power-hungry Councilor Yurn is headed to the island with a ship full of hoverbots and a devious plan in mind: he means to take over Lotus Island and build a new city there

Avery does her best to make it through just nine more days

resulting in the artist's first sold-out

industry conference

But when her mom gets a prestigious new job in a poor

and one gets back together with her (awful) boyfriend

Rebellions are like fires--something needs to burn to make a flame