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Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke to Nialle Sylvan from The Haunted Bookshop in Iowa City, Iowa.This premise may be familiar to some in the world of science fiction: Earth is gone. The last of civilization is on board a spaceship, hurtling through the darkness.But Rivers Solomon has so much more at play in their debut novel.“The first thing you notice is that this is not ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ it is not ‘Star Trek,’ it is not your father’s colony ship story,” says bookseller Nialle Sylvan. The…
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