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Anna Sinjari―refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker―has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. …
What do you do when you meet an alien in Central Park?
— Exordia by Seth Dickinson
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small …
A crack echoed through the boreal landscape, a momentary chaos in the still afternoon air.
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
The moment Fetter is born, Mother-of-Glory pins his shadow to the earth with a large brass nail and tears it from him.
A man was loitering outside the bookshop.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
After pitched battle, betrayal, and escape, Kaia Steelflower has enough gold to feed her troupe …
Anything at the mercy of such a divine female must, to them, necessarily be a man.
After pitched battle, betrayal, and escape, Kaia Steelflower has enough gold to feed her troupe …
The fat-sailed high-prowed Taryam’ajak of Antai bit salt swells, singing of rigging and canvas strained by pressure, bound for home across the wide blue desert of the Lan’ai.
Thief, assassin, sellsword—Kaia Steelflower is famous. Well, mostly famous, and mostly for the wrong reasons. …
I woke from a fuzzy trance with my mead-filled head ringing and four Hain Guards seeking to separate said head from my shoulders.
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove …
Nobody ever believed murders “just happened” around Mallory Viridian.
Nigerian God-Punk - a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos.
Since the Orisha …
This is going to be a bad job.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
The walls of the estate emerged from the morning fog before me, long and dark and rounded like the skin of some beached sea creature.
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of …
In the early sun-swept hours of the morning, when purples and pinks smeared across the sky like blood, Firuz-e Jafari looked for a job.
Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
Humans often say that they are made of stardust.
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no …
Wolfe Studios released a tarot deck’s worth of stories about me over the years.
— Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is …
Every morning just after dawn, Lin Chong taught a fight class for women.
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a …
It was much, much worse at night.
