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Samantha Shannon

British author Samantha Shannon is best known for her world-building blend of fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk. Often setting her work in a near-future dystopian London (think 1984), she weaves intricate webs of characters, creatures, and organizations. Shannon often features...

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Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir is the author of the Locked Tomb Trilogy, which begins with Gideon the Ninth, continues with Harrow the Ninth, and concludes with Alecto the Ninth. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award,...

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Martha Wells

The intricately plotted and gripping fantasy fiction of Martha Wells immerses readers into fascinating new worlds. Whether they are set in Ile-Rien, an Elizabethan England-like realm full of swashbuckling duels and grand sorcery, or the Three Worlds, where a diverse range...

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A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine - Tor Books
Format: Book

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident -- or that...

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The Harp of Kings

Juliet Marillier - Ace
Format: Book

A young woman is both a bard -- and a warrior -- in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author of the Sevenwaters novels. Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp....

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Seth Dickinson - Tor
Format: Book

Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up and see red sails on the horizon.The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. They will conquer Baru's island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers....

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The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction -- but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan...

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The Mirror Empire

Kameron Hurley - Angry Robot
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On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past... while a world goes to war with itself. In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating...

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The Monster of Elendhaven

Jennifer Giesbrecht - Tor
Format: Book

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning...

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The Tigers Daughter

K Arsenault Rivera - Tor Books
Format: Book

Even gods can be slain. The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach -- but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests. Away on the silver...

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The Library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins - Broadway Books
Format: Book

A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away. Carolyn is not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone...

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The Unbroken

C. L. Clark - Orbit
Format: Book

Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Luca needs...

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Space Opera

Catherynne M. Valente - Saga Press
Format: Book

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace,...

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Unspoken Name

A. K. Larkwood - Tor
Format: Book

What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does—she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold death, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Leave with him, and live. Turn...

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