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Save one world. Doom her own.
From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes …
The largest private collection of rare artifacts from other worlds could be found in central New Jersey at Princeton University, and if anyone knew Maya Hoshimoto was a thief, they wouldn’t have let her anywhere near there.
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …
They say never start a story with a waking, but when you’ve been hard asleep for thirty years it’s difficult to know where else to begin.
Shigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering …
So, there he was, barely conscious in the back of a black cab being driven down the Haymarket road on the spirit-side of London by a man who died seventy years ago, when Nneoma finally told Shigidi that she loved him.
Luxorian is a dragon without a rider, and that's a problem.
Since ancient times, dragons …
‘Humans are a necessary annoyance,’ my mother had said to me.
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in …
We were waiting for things to converge.
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore’s dagger and as subtle as a fish …
My father kept a dragon eye upon his desk.
— Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
The first book in a wildly entertaining new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft …
"The king wishes to be cooked alive," the royal secretary said, accepting the proffered saucer and cup and immediately setting both aside.
“Your mother is going to be a star,” said the man in the gray uniform.
— Counterweight by Anton Hur, Djuna
As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew …
Captain Darian Frey was accustomed to long odds; his whole life, he’d been an outside chance. Lacking the ability to win in a fair fight, he survived instead by guile and the illogical optimism favoured by gamblers and drunks, which made the riskiest of plans seem like a good idea at the time.
Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. The Ketty Jay has …
‘On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.’
Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed …
Darian Frey was a man who understood the value of a tactical retreat.
Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional …
The smuggler held the bullet between thumb and forefinger, studying it in the weak light of the store room.
There are only three real powers in the universe: the corporate power of the Trust …
Somewhere in Jal’s file was a note from an old crewmate that read, Jalsen Red will either be the reason you die, or the reason you live. Good fucking luck.
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend …
Standing next to his step box, Baxter hovers: immobile and elastic, ready to spring forward to lift a suitcase, dissect a timetable, point to the conductor, nod, lift more suitcases, now hat boxes, answer more questions, and nod, nod, nod.
To fix the world they first must break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, …
On activation each morning Charles’ first duty was to check his master’s travel arrangements for the day.
