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Ray Nayler: Where the Axe Is Buried (2025, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …

My favorite contemporary sci-fi author

I love this cover so much; it’s like a riso print for a comic. Had to diagram characters, locations, and timelines to follow all of the jumping around. It’s Nayler’s usual fare of capitalism, consciousness, environmental collapse, and AI, but he always manages to write interesting stories about them in different combinations. It’s not all bleak, but what a mess we continue to make for ourselves.