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[This] is the story of Cullen James, a young Manhattan woman whose life dictates her dreams -- and whose dreams control her life. Her first dream was to find the perfect man, and it happened. But then she begins to experience a bizarre set of nighttime dreams that are serial, compelling, and oddly fulfilling. ... Slowly, quietly, her dream world is spilling over into New York reality and beginning to threaten all she loves in the waking world."--Jacket flap
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelidand Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled t
"If music is a universal language, and mathematics a universal truth, could the two be combined to form a new world language that would create common understanding across all cultures? In 2422, mathematicians who govern the world calculate that if our species doesn't reduce wars and killing, humanity will be driven to extinction in fifteen months. They further divine that the only way out of the crisis is to create the optimum language for humans, which, it turns out, will be based on mathematic
"The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured new voice in genre fiction. As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying bloodsucking upirs. There's only one monster she can't defeat: her ex, the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She's defied him one too many times and now he's hunting her. Betrayed by someone close to her, Kosara's only choice
Waking up from cryostasis on the colony ark, Calypso, Rochelle finds the ship nearly deserted and discovers that she slept through a war and that the remaining engineers and botanists have different ideas about how to rebuild the world.
"Galva - Galvicha to her three brothers, two of whom the goblins will kill - has defied her family's wishes and joined the army's untested new unit, the Raven Knights. They march toward a once-beautiful city overrun by the goblin horde, accompanied by scores of giant war corvids. Made with the darkest magics, these fearsome black birds may hold the key to stopping the goblins in their war to make cattle of mankind. The road to victory is bloody, and goblins are clever and merciless. The Raven Kn
"Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty. Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthypatrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit... When a series of dancers are targeted-the attacker steali
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Apr 22, 2024
"For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape It is said there is a price that every passenger must pay. A price beyond the cost of a ticket. There is only one way to travel across the Wastelands: on the Trans-Siberian Express, a train as famous for its luxury as for its danger. The train is never short of passengers, eager to catch sight of Wastelands
"If music is a universal language, and mathematics a universal truth, could the two be combined to form a new world language that would create common understanding across all cultures? In 2422, mathematicians who govern the world calculate that if our species doesn't reduce wars and killing, humanity will be driven to extinction in fifteen months. They further divine that the only way out of the crisis is to create the optimum language for humans, which, it turns out, will be based on mathematic
"The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they're really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth's environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel, a secret that could save everyone on her dying planet
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He's been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-mentor determined to take the mythological world by storm. Tyler has got a plan, and weirdly his self-help pund
"Fox is a memory editor - one of the best - gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing technology turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe. Thrust into reconstructions of his memories exploded fro
"For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular "This Month in History" column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events, four a month, each set in a totally different, imaginary yet possible, inevitable yet avoidable future. From the first AI President to the first dog on Mars, to the funeral of Earth's last glacier, it's speculative SF at its most (and least) serious. Collected as a series for the first time, Tomorrowing will amuse, a