Figured I'd post this since I know some of you really like Murderbot, although to be clear, this seems to be just a side character story (idk, I haven't read the series). According to the announcement, it's set after book 2.

There's also a short story set after book 4 available.

The Locus Awards are put on by Locus Magazine, a monthly indie publication (since 1968!) focusing on SFF book news and reviews. They're pretty good about including small press stuff in their weekly new releases posts, which is nice.

Winner highlights:

• Science fiction novel: The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar
• Fantasy novel: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher
• Horror novel: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle
• YA novel: Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee
• First novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell
• Novella: What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher
• Novelette: “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed
• Short story: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim
• Anthology: The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds.
• Collection: Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie

Hey everyone!

We're about six months into our first books@lemmy.world Book Bingo challenge. If you didn't know about it, or if you've been debating joining, there's still plenty of time to participate! You do not need to fill a whole card to complete the challenge: 'bingo' is only five squares in a line.

If you're already working on bingo, how's it going so far? Doing any fun challenges? Having trouble with any squares or rules? Any and all feedback is welcome and appreciated!

We'll be doing another post in a few months for 2025 bingo suggestions, and a turn-in post at the beginning of April.

On behalf of myself, Dresden, and JaymesRS, thank you for being here, and happy reading!

• September 6 at 11 a.m. ET - September 9 at 11 a.m. ET: Heavy Caliber + 30K Credits
• September 13 at 11 a.m. ET - September 16 at 11 a.m. ET: Depleted Reload + 30K Credits
• September 20 at 11 a.m. ET - September 23 at 11 a.m. ET: Tainted Shell + 30K Credits
• September 27 at 11 a.m. ET - September 30 at 11 a.m. ET: Magnum Force + Stratos Emblem

(mission details are in the post, if you care)

Mixing every color using light = white

Mixing every color using pigments (paint, ink, etc.) = black

Nightwave: Nora’s Mix Vol. 6 is coming to a close—ending on Tuesday, September 3rd at 1 p.m. ET. However, similar to Nora’s Mix Vol. 6, Nightwave: Nora’s Mix Vol. 7 will be released quickly after, on Tuesday, September 3rd, around 2:15 p.m. ET (whenever we Hotfix!)

Vol. 7 rewards are Stalker-themed (the link has a list, but no pictures).

Don't forget to spend your creds!

A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from several short fiction stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published. The stories may be edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material, such as a frame story or other interstitial narration, is written for the new work.

I'd just never heard the term before this article popped up last night. Thought maybe it might be a new thing for some of you, as well!

The notes are stupid long, so I'm not gonna try to copy paste them here. However, here's an overview:

New Frames/Weapons

• New frame: Dante (rot C new disruption node or via pity system)
• New incarnon weapons: Onos (secondary) and Ruvox (melee: fist)

Starchart & Steel Path

• New Deimos node: Armatus (Disruption)
• Disruption QoL changes: demolisher marker shows up much more easily; red conduit now yellow
• Omnia void fissures (can take any tier of relic in)
• Steel Path Zariman & Cavia bounties
• Steel Path incursion expansion: Zariman and Albrecht’s Laboratories now get their own 6th daily incursion

Albrecht's Laboratories tileset

• New enemy: Gruzzling, drops lanthorns, echo vocas, common melee arcanes, and are an additional source of conduit activators on Armatus
• Tileset expansion; includes new somachord tones
• Netracell drop table changes (removed all the non-legendary melee arcanes & adjusted drop rates of remaining items)
• Some enemy adjustments, including Rogue Bonewidows (which also applies to iso vaults)

Sanctum Anatomica

• “Research Dante” store (Loid), which also includes riven transmuters and a new Simulacrum that lets you bump enemies an extra 25 levels
• Weekly archon shard offering moved to Sanctum Anatomica (Bird3), no longer on Chipper
• You can hug Fish, Bird, and Emo now.

Duviri Improvements

• Top QoL changes: circuit progress now saves between rounds (!); you can leave the undercroft waiting area as long as the timer hasn't started
• Circuit Assassination: Corrupted Jackal changes (nerf)

Cosmetics & Customization

• Styanax Tonatiuh collection
• Tennogen Unbound (6 things, including Sevagoth and Gyre skins)
• New market bundles: Dante, Inaros cosmetics, voidshells (Banshee, Loki, Nekros), community glyphs, anniversary glyphs
• Redliner emote
• Customization for frames with invisibility abilities (under attachments > auxiliary attachments), lets you choose between classic transparent and just kind of an energy glow
• Haztech & Smelter suits can now be worn by drifter

Frame Reworks & Changes

• Inaros rework
• Mirage Eclipse & Prism changes (no longer reliant on light)
• Gara passive change (no longer reliant on light)
• Nourish Helminth change (nerf)
• Loki ability changes (decoy now scales; switch teleport no longer roots, and also gives a speed boost)
• Yareli ability changes (no longer rooted when casting aquablades/riptide)

Upgrades

• Archon shard expansion: Ascent Fusion (combine 3 of the same shard into a tauforged)
• New warframe augment mods for Baruuk, Chroma, Citrine, Kullervo, Lavos, Loki, Nezha, Nidus, Styanax, Excal Umbra, and Yareli
  Click for augment list
• Elusive Retribution (Baruuk - Elude): Every attack Baruuk Eludes increases his Melee Attack Speed and Melee Critical Damage by 5% up to 6 stacks. Stacks last 6s. (Hexis/Loca)
• Guardian Armor (Chroma - Vex Armor): Chroma's Health takes 50% of damage dealt to allies within Affinity Range. Squad kills restore 5% of his Health over 3s and increases Vex Armor duration by 1s. (Suda/Perrin)
• Recrystalize (Citrine - Crystallize): Enemies killed by crystalline growths stagger and spread the crystals to enemies within 16m. (Red Veil/Steel Merid)
• Wrath of Ukko (Kullervo - Storm of Ukko): Wrathful Advance moves the storm of daggers to the teleportation location and increases its duration by 6s. (Loca/Steel Merid)
• Valence Formation (Lavos - Passive): Upon Ability cast, applies the Ability Element as 200% Elemental Damage to your weapons with guaranteed Status for 20s. (Loka/Red Veil)
• Damage Decoy (Loki - Decoy): Decoy can be cast on enemies. Enemies who attack that decoy receive 5 random Status Effects, and the reflected damage is increased by 350%. (Hexis/Red Veil)
• Divine Retribution (Nezha - Divine Spears): When a speared enemy suffers from a Status Effect, the Status Effect spreads to all speared enemies. Spear explosions apply 1.5x Status Damage. (Suda/Steel Merid)
• Parasitic Vitality (Nidus - Parasitic Link): Nidus and any ally he's bound to gain 4% Max Health per Mutation during Parasitic Link. (Steel Merid/Perrin)
• Axios Javelineers (Styanax - Axios Javelin): A pair of Styanax Specters spawn to throw javelins, creating vortexes on impact. Impale an enemy to increase vortex duration by 5s. (Hexis/Loka)
• Warrior’s Rest (Excalibur Umbra - Passive): Umbra's Ability Strength increases by 15% but he no longer fights independently alongside his Operator. (Hexis/Red Veil)
• Loyal Merulina (Yareli - Merulina): You no longer ride Merulina. Instead, she follows her and casts Sea Snare on nearby enemies. 2s cooldown. (Suda/Loka)

New Player Path Improvements

• Cephalon Simaris introduction improved
• Mote Amp acquisition improved
• Junction changes
• Inbox messages more correctly mastery-rank locked
• Railjack market bundle changes (removed some bundles, and added a new, better one for less plat; differences in plat will be refunded)
• Quest changes (including reducing quest item build times to 10 sec)

Melee Attack Changes

• Melee ground slam attack changes: only radial damage (max 50% falloff at edge), scales with mods
• Melee finisher improvements (new vfx, more enemies can be finishered)
• Auto-melee fixes (no longer will I get stuck perma-meleeing in circuit... probably)

UI QoL changes

• New UI sorting categories for arcanes, captura, and orbiter deco
• New fast travel menus for orbiter, relays, & dojo (same as gear button) (includes Baro!)
• Upgrade screen changes (some nice little tweaks)
• Warframe, weapon, And railjack stat UI rework (honestly it seems mostly the same in practice, but you can now see some extra handy stats if you've equipped mods that affect them)
• Incarnon reticle improvements

Visual Updates

• GI Volume Lighting updates (now applies to orbiter and some other places, as well as transparent parts on frames)
• Kubrow fur updates

Other Additions, Changes, Fixes, etc.

Some highlights:

• Sticky corners begone!
• Applicable ammo pickups will charge tome alt-fire, instead of being useless for that weapon class
• No more being locked out of companion pets when incubating; also imprint QoL#

Defend the Leverian from the avaricious clutches of Parvos Granum and the Corpus! Drusus, curator and caretaker of the Leverian, requests your help to get out from under Parvos’s gilded thumb. It falls to you to track down his assistant and chief chronicler, the Warframe Dante. Master Dante’s Abilities as you take on new Missions like Murmur focused Disruption and greater challenges than ever before.

Dante Unbound launches on all platforms on March 27!

(They're also pausing hotfixes til then.)