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Vengeful by V. E. Schwab

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *2018 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY* A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions - V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious . Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine. But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she's finally gained the control she's always sought - and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She'll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other once more. With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity - and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning. Entertainment Weekly 's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now Tor Schwab's characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple On Sale: Jan 7/20 archetypes. . . In a genre that tends toward the flippant or pretentious, this is a 5.38 x 8.25 • 496 pages rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic. Schwab's tale 9780765387530 • $25.99 • pb of betrayal, self-hatred, and survival will resonate with superhero fans as well Fiction / Superheroes as readers who have never heard of Charles Xavier or Victor von Doom." Series: Villains Publishers Weekly, starred review " Notes Readers won't be able to put down this dark and riveting tale of power and (...)

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V. E. Schwab is the author of the New York Times -bestselling Shades of Magic series, as well as The Near Witch, The Archived, and Vicious . The product of a British mother, a Beverly Hills father, and a southern upbringing, Schwab has a penchant for tea and BBC shows, and a serious and well- documented case of wanderlust.

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Heart of Black Ice by Terry Goodkind

Heart of Black Ice is the climactic conclusion to Terry Goodkind's New York Times bestselling Nicci Chronicles. In the wake of the brutal war that swept the Old World in Siege of Stone, a new danger is forming along the coast. Taken captive by their enemies, King Grieve, along with Lila and Bannon are about to discover the terrifying force that threatens to bring destruction to the Old World. The Norukai, barbarian raiders and slavers, have been gathering an immense fleet among the inhospitably rocky islands that make up their home. With numbers greater than anyone could have imagined, the Norukai are poised to launch their final and most deadly war.

Praise for Terry Goodkind

This action-packed book will delight epic fantasy enthusiasts." - Library Journal on Death's Mistress Tor "Goodkind's worldbuilding abilities are outdone only by his striking character On Sale: Jan 21/20 development, resulting in an adventure that is remarkably impactful." - RT 6.12 x 9.25 • 528 pages Book Reviews, Top Pick, on Death's Mistress 9781250194794 • $39.99 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Fantasy / Epic "Wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring." - Kirkus Reviews on Wizard's Series: Nicci Chronicles First Rule "Outstanding. . . Characters who actually behave like adults. Highly Notes recommended." - San Diego Union Tribute on Temple of the Winds

Author Bio Promotion Terry Goodkind is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His books include the eleven-volume Sword of Truth series, beginning with Wizard's First Rule, the basis for the television show Legend of the Seeker. Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school. Alongside a career in wildlife art, he has also been a cabinetmaker and a violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world - each with its own story to tell, he says. While continuing to maintain the northeastern home he built with his own hands, in recent years he and his wife Jeri have created a second home in the desert Southwest, where he now spends the majority of his time.

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Null Set A Cas Russell Novel by S. L. Huang

S. L. Huang's Null Set is the breakout sf thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has decided to Fight Crime(tm). After all, with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can neuter bombs or out-shoot an army. And the recent outbreak of violence in the world's cities is Cas's fault - she's the one who crushed the organization of telepaths keeping the world's worst offenders under control. But Cas's own power also has a history, one she can't remember - or control. One that's creeping into her mind and fracturing her sanity. . . just when she's gotten herself on the hit list of every crime lord on the West Coast. And her best, only, sociopathic friend. Cas won't be able to save the world. She might not even be able to save herself.

Praise for Zero Sum Game : Tor A smart, calculated action thriller that keeps the reader guessing." - Den of On Sale: Jan 14/20 Geek 6.12 x 9.25 • 336 pages "Trust us, trigonometry has never sounded so cool." - Paste Magazine 9781250180322 • $25.99 • pb "Fun and original." - San Francisco Chronicle Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure "A fast-paced, darkly humorous read with a lot of heart for fans of action and Series: Cas Russell urban fantasy, as well as lovers of Wolverine and other morally ambiguous, gritty superheroes with a mysterious past." - Booklist, Starred Review Notes "Fast, furious, and adds up to one of the coolest, most crackin' reads this year." - Chuck Wendig "The best novel I've read this year; a heroine I fell in love with." - Eric Van Promotion Lustbader, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Cas Russell is who I want to be when I grow up. She kicks ass (...)

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S. L. Huanghas a math degree from MIT and is a weapons expert and professional stuntwoman who has worked in Hollywood on Battlestar Galactica and a number of other productions. Her novels include the Cas Russell series (formerly known as Russel's Attic), which begins with Zero Sum Game . Huang's short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.

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Song of the Risen God by R. A. Salvatore

Song of the Risen God is the climatic conclusion to the thrilling Coven Trilogy from New York Times bestselling author, R. A. Salvatore. War has come to Fireach Speur. The once forgotten Xoconai empire has declared war upon the humans west of the mountains, and their first target are the people of Loch Beag. Lead by the peerless general, Tzatzini, all that stands in the way of the God Emperor's grasp of power is Aoelyn, Talmadge, and their few remaining allies. But not all hope is lost. Far away from Fireach Speuer, an ancient tomb is uncovered by Brother Thaddeus of the Abellican Church. Within it is the power to stop the onslaught of coming empire and, possibly, reshape the very world itself

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R. A. Salvatore is one of fantasy's most popular authors, with his books frequently appearing on the New York Times bestseller list and more than 10 Tor million copies of his books sold. He is the author of The Bear, The Dame, The On Sale: Jan 28/20 Ancient, and The Highwayman as well as Gauntlgrym, The Legend of Drizzt 6.12 x 9.25 • 416 pages books, including the Dark Elf Trilogy - Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn - and the 9780765395337 • $39.99 • CL - With dust jacket Demon Wars series, among many others. Salvatore was born in Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Massachusetts, and earned a B.S. in communications and a B.A. in English Series: Coven from Fitchburg State College. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Diane, and their three children. Notes

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A Queen in Hiding by Sarah Kozloff

Debut author Sarah Kozloff offers a breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy of a ruler coming of age in A Queen in Hiding first in the quartet of The Nine Realms series. Exiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, knows she has one destiny. Her enemies failed to kill her, and no one harboring her is safe. Raised in obscurity, she has no resources, no army, nothing that can help her against her enemies. Except their gods.

The Nine Realms Series #1 A Queen in Hiding January 2020 #2 The Queen of Raiders February 2020 #3 A Broken Queen March 2020 #4 The Cerulean Queen April 2020

Tor On Sale: Jan 21/20 Praise for A Queen in Hiding 5.38 x 8.25 • 496 pages A deft and exciting beginning to what I am sure will be a really gorgeous saga 9781250168542 • $17.50 • pb of a girl coming to terms with her destiny." - Melanie Rawn, author of the Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Exiles trilogy Series: Nine Realms "A breathtaking start to a new fantasy series that abounds in magic, backstabbing, and war. This is your new epic fantasy fix, right here." - Beth Notes Cato, author of Breath of Earth

"Sweeping in scope and unabashedly epic - Kozloff has written an instant Promotion classic, here. I can't wait for the next one." - Auston Habershaw, author of Iron and Blood

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Sarah Kozloff holds an Endowed Chair as a professor of film history at Vassar College. She worked in the film industry in both television and film before becoming a professor. A Queen in Hiding is her debut fantasy novel.

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The Bard's Blade by Brian D. Anderson

The Bard's Blade is the start of a new fantasy adventure from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein series. Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred are all but unknown. There she's a renowned wine maker and her betrothed, Lem, is a musician of rare talent. Their destiny has never been in question. Whatever life brings, they will brave it together. But destiny has a way of choosing its own path, and when a stranger crosses the wards into Vylari for the first time in centuries, the two are faced with a terrible prophecy. For beyond the borders, an ancient evil is returning, its age- old prison shattered. The two must leave their home behind, and in doing so will encounter sorcerers and thieves, con-men and assassins, treachery and greed. How far down this path will they have to go to stop the rising darkness and save their home? And how much of themselves will they have to give up along the way Tor On Sale: Jan 28/20 Author Bio 5.38 x 8.25 • 432 pages 9781250214645 • $24.50 • pb BRIAN D. ANDERSON is the indie-bestselling fantasy author of The Godling Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Chronicles, Dragonvein, and Akiri (with co-author Steven Savile) series. His Series: Sorcerer's Song books have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and his audiobooks are perennially popular. After a fifteen year long career in music, he rediscovered Notes his boyhood love of writing. It was soon apparent that this was what he should have been pursuing all along. Currently, he lives in the sleepy southern town of Fairhope, Alabama with his wife and son, who inspire him daily. Promotion

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Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister - whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice - back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's No Quests" rule is about to be broken. Again. The Wayward Children Series Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway Tor Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones On Sale: Jan 7/20 Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky 5.38 x 8.25 • 208 pages Book 4: In an Absent Dream 9780765399311 • $26.99 • CL - With dust jacket Book 5: Come Tumbling Down Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary " Series: Wayward Children Praise for Every Heart a Doorway Notes With Every Heart a Doorway, McGuire has created her own mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy - a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics, even as it carves its own precocious space Promotion between them." - NPR "Seanan McGuire has long been one of the smartest writers around, and with this novella we can easily see that her heart is as big as her brain." - Charlaine Harris "One of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read.

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SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls and horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot.

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Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether." - Marlon James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for the crime of being a young black man in America, Ella - through visits both mundane and supernatural - tries to show him the way to a revolution that could burn it all down. Praise for Riot Baby "[Tochi] Onyebuchi has woven a story as uplifting as it is heartbreaking, an epic ode to the future and past, tiny acts of resistance, love, and the wild unstoppable sweep of revolution." - Daniel Jose Older Tor " On Sale: Jan 21/20 5 x 8 • 176 pages Praise for Tochi Onyebuchi's Beasts Made of Night 9781250214751 • $26.99 • CL - With dust jacket Onyebuchi has created a world that will no doubt inspire many in turn." - NPR. Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure org "This compelling Nigerian-influenced fantasy has a wonderfully unique Notes premise and lush, brilliant worldbuilding that will consume you until the last page." - BuzzFeed "Onyebuchi's debut novel explores class, politics, religion, and so much more, Promotion all in a world that is masterfully built, sweeping, and imaginative." - Bustle "Epic" is an overused term to describe how magnificent someone or something is. Author Onyebuchi's novel creates his in the good (...)

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Tochi Onyebuchi holds a BA from Yale, an MFA in screenwriting from Tisch, a master's degree in global economic law from L'institut d'etudes politiques, and a JD from Columbia Law School. His writing has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and Ideomancer, among other places, and he is the author of the novels Beasts Made of Night and Crown of Thunder . Tochi resides in Connecticut, where he works in the tech industry.

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Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton

Tessa Gratton's Lady Hotspur is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny. STRIKE FAST, LOVE HARD, LIVE FOREVER This is the motto of the Lady Knights - sworn to fealty under a struggling kingdom, promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora. But when a fearsome rebellion overthrows the throne, Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love, and allow a king-killer to be rewarded - or retake the throne, and take up arms against the newest heir, Hal Bolingbrooke, Mora's own childhood best friend and sworn head of the Lady Knights. Hal loathes being a Prince; she's much more comfortable instated on the Throne of Misrule, a racous underground nether-court where passion rules all. She yearns to live up to the wishes of everyone she loves best - but that means sacrificing her own heart, and so she will disappoint everyone until the moment she can rise to prove those expectations wrong. And between these two fierce Princes is the woman who will decide all their Tor fates - Lady Isarna Hotspur, the fiery and bold knight whose support will turn On Sale: Jan 7/20 the tides of the coming war. 6.12 x 9.25 • 592 pages 9780765392503 • $25.99 • pb Fiction / Fantasy / Historical Praise for The Queens of Innis Lear:

Notes Thoroughly engaging." - New York Times

"I adore this - rich, epic, blood-soaked - a glorious and grand sweeping Promotion fantasy." - Kate Elliott, author of The Poisoned Blade "Gratton's firstnovel for adults is a force to be reckoned with. . . A darkly rendered epic of oldmagic, hard hearts, and complicated choices." - Booklist (...)

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TESSA GRATTON is the author of the Blood Journals duology, Gods of New Asgard series, and two books on writing fantasy for teen writers. She currently works for Serial Box Publishing as a lead writer on Tremontaine . She lived all over the world before returning to her prairie roots in Kansas with her wife. Queens of Innis Lear is her debut adult fantasy novel.

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Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton

Tessa Gratton's Lady Hotspur is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny. STRIKE FAST, LOVE HARD, LIVE FOREVER This is the motto of the Lady Knights - sworn to fealty under a struggling kingdom, promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora. But when a fearsome rebellion overthrows the throne, Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love, and allow a king-killer to be rewarded - or retake the throne, and take up arms against the newest heir, Hal Bolingbrooke, Mora's own childhood best friend and sworn head of the Lady Knights. Hal loathes being a Prince; she's much more comfortable instated on the Throne of Misrule, a racous underground nether-court where passion rules all. She yearns to live up to the wishes of everyone she loves best - but that means sacrificing her own heart, and so she will disappoint everyone until the moment she can rise to prove those expectations wrong. And between these two fierce Princes is the woman who will decide all their Tor fates - Lady Isarna Hotspur, the fiery and bold knight whose support will turn On Sale: Jan 7/20 the tides of the coming war. 6.12 x 9.25 • 592 pages 9780765392497 • $39.99 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Fantasy / Historical Praise for The Queens of Innis Lear:

Notes I adore this - rich, epic, blood-soaked - a glorious and grand sweeping fantasy." - Kate Elliott, author of The Poisoned Blade

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Burn the Dark Malus Domestica #1 by S. A. Hunt

Supernatural meets Stranger Things in award-winning author S. A. Hunt's Burn the Dark, first in the Malus Domestica horror action- adventure series about a punk YouTuber on a mission to bring down witches, one vid at a time. Robin is a YouTube celebrity gone-viral with her intensely-realistic witch hunter series. But even her millions of followers don't know the truth: her series isn't fiction. Her ultimate goal is to seek revenge against the coven of witches who wronged her mother long ago. Returning home to the rural town of Blackfield, Robin meets friends new and old on her quest for justice. But then, a mysterious threat known as the Red Lord interferes with her plans. . . . Brilliant!" - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author "

Burn the Dark is a brilliant debut! S. A. Hunt gets everything right about the Tor creepier aspects 21st digital culture and presents a compelling and On Sale: Jan 14/20 memorable female lead." - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling 5.38 x 8.25 • 384 pages author of V-Wars and Glimpse 9781250306432 • $24.50 • pb Fiction / Horror "S.A. Hunt is a kickass storyteller conquering the zone between fantasy and Series: Malus Domestica horror. Keep an eye on this one, because he's just getting started." - New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig Notes "S. A. Hunt's Burn the Night is a bold, sharp, fresh take on urban fantasy that brings it into the 21 century. The characters feel real and their flaws make them beautiful. The world building is impressive and immersive, the prose is Promotion sharp and tight, and the scary is damn scary. It's a lot of fun!" - R. S. Belcher, author of Brotherhood of the Wheel and M. I. B. International (novelization

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S. A. HUNT (they/them) is the author of Amazon Top 10 Horror novelMalus Domestica, and the award-winning Outlaw King fantasy series. In 2005 they joined the Army and became Military Police, where they were awarded a Joint Services Achievement Medal for their efforts in Afghanistan. They currently live in Petoskey, Michigan.

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Burn the Dark Malus Domestica #1 by S. A. Hunt

Burn the Dark is a brilliant debut! S. A. Hunt gets everything right about the Tor creepier aspects 21st digital culture and presents a compelling and On Sale: Jan 14/20 memorable female lead." - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling 5.38 x 8.25 • 384 pages author of V-Wars and Glimpse 9781250306425 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Horror "S.A. Hunt is a kickass storyteller conquering the zone between fantasy and Series: Malus Domestica horror. Keep an eye on this one, because he's just getting started." - New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig Notes "S. A. Hunt's Burn the Night is a bold, sharp, fresh take on urban fantasy that brings it into the 21 century. The characters feel real and their flaws make them beautiful. The world building is impressive and immersive, the prose is Promotion sharp and tight, and the scary is damn scary. It's a lot of fun!" - R. S. Belcher, author of Brotherhood of the Wheel and M. I. B. International (novelization

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The Best of Gene Wolfe A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe

The Best of Gene Wolfe is the definitive collection of the best of Gene Wolfe's short fiction. One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the 20th century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure who produced the finest and most significant body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field over the last fifty years. The Best of Gene Wolfe is an amazing retrospective collection of his short fiction, selected by Wolfe himself. Too many award winners and Best Of stories to list here; just as a sample we have The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories", "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", "Petting Zoo", "The Tree Is My Hat", "Seven American Nights", and "A Cabin on the Coast." Incredible tales from a writer who challenged and amazed. Who revolutionized the genre. And whose stories will stand the test of time. "Wolfe is our Melville." - Ursula K. Le Guin Tor " On Sale: Jan 21/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 480 pages Praise for Gene Wolfe 9781250618580 • $28.50 • pb Wolfe is our Melville." - Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories "If any writer from within genre fiction ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe . . . [who] reads like Dickens, Proust, Kipling, Notes Chesterton, Borges, and Nabokov rolled into one." - The Washington Post Book World

Promotion "One of the literary giants of science fiction." - The Denver Post "Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today. . . I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what's good about Mozart." - The Chicago Sun-Times "Wolfe is sf's greatest novelist, and overall one of America's finest." - The Washington Post Book World "Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist (...)

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Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon . He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe . A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E.

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The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood

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 away from her destiny and her god to become a thief, a spy, an assassin - the wizard's loyal sword. Topple an empire, and help him reclaim his seat of power. But Csorwe will soon learn - gods remember, and if you live long enough, all debts come due. Astounding. . . unlike anything I've read before." - Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld "The vein of Le Guin's magnificent Tombs of Atuan - if Arha the Eaten One got to grow up to be a swordswoman mercenary in thrall to her dubious wizard mentor.I love this book so much ." - Arkady Martine, author of A Memory Called Empire "Hooked me in from the first page and never let go. Fabulous, in every Tor meaning of the word." - Jenn Lyons, author of Ruin of Kings On Sale: Feb 11/20 " 6.12 x 9.25 • 464 pages 9781250238900 • $34.99 • CL - With dust jacket An unexpected and new take on classic orcs 'n' swords fantasy. Stylish, Fiction / Fantasy / Epic classy, and timeless - but with racing stripes and an inbuilt camera. I cannot recommend it enough." - Tamsyn Muir, author ofGideon the Ninth Notes "The Unspoken Name has everything - spine-tingling prose, gorgeous worldbuilding, powerful older women, found family (but it's terrible), giant Promotion snakes, ancient tombs, dead gods, and true love. It's fantastic. I read it in one sitting." - Emily Tesh, author of Silver in the Wood

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A.K. LARKWOOD studied English at St John's College, Cambridge, and now lives in Oxford with her wife and a cat.

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The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

The Verge' s Science Fiction and Fantasy Book We're Looking Forward to in 2019 * AV Club 's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 * Book Riot 's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 * Kirkus ' 30 Speculative Fiction Books You Should Read in February 2019 * Bookish 's Winter's Must-Read Sci-fi & Fantasy * Bookbub 's Best Science Fiction Books Coming Out in 2019 * YA Books Central 's Buzzworty Books of 2019

This generation's Le Guin." - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with#10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night. "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams. . . And from there, it's Tor easy to control our entire lives." On Sale: Feb 11/20 January is a dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on 6.12 x 9.25 • 368 pages one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, 9780765379979 • $25.99 • pb spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact But life inside (...)

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Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Promotion Nebula, Locus and Crawford awards and was on Time Magazine 's list of the 10 best novels of 2016. Her Tor.com story Six Months, Three Days" won a Hugo Award and appears in the short story collection called Six Months, Three Days, Five Others . Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com,Wired Magazine, Slate, Tin House, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. She was a founding editor of io9.com, a site about science fiction, science and futurism, and she organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series. Her first novel, Choir Boy, won a Lambda Literary Award.

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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it." - Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice

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 Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion - all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret - one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life - or rescue it from annihilation. A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Tor Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. On Sale: Feb 25/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 480 pages "The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love." - Charlie 9781250186447 • $25.99 • pb Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera " Series: Teixcalaan [A] gorgeously crafted diplomatic space opera . . . Readers will eagerly away Notes the planned sequels to this impressive debut." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Politics and personalities blend with an immersive setting and beautiful prose in a debut that weaves threads of identity, assimilation, technology, and Promotion culture to offer an exceedingly well-done sf political thriller." - Library Journal, starred review (...)

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Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. Anna Linden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. Under both names, she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda, and the edges of the world. Arkady grew up in New York City and, after some time in Turkey, Canada, and Sweden, lives in Baltimore with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Martine's debut novel, A Memory Called Empire, kicks off the Teixcalaan series.

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Critical Point by S. L. Huang

S. L. Huang's Critical Point is a breakout SF thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka. Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created. And that's just the start: when a demolitions expert targets Cas and her friends, and the hidden conspiracy behind Cas's past starts to reappear, the past, present, and future collide in a race to save one of her dearest friends.

Praise for Zero Sum Game : A smart, calculated action thriller that keeps the reader guessing." - Den of Geek "Trust us, trigonometry has never sounded so cool." - Paste Magazine "Fun and original." - San Francisco Chronicle "A fast-paced, darkly humorous read with a lot of heart for fans of action and Tor urban fantasy, as well as lovers of Wolverine and other morally ambiguous, On Sale: Feb 11/20 gritty superheroes with a mysterious past." - Booklist, Starred Review 6.12 x 9.25 • 320 pages "Fast, furious, and adds up to one of the coolest, most crackin' reads this 9781250180360 • $37.99 • CL - With dust jacket year." - Chuck Wendig Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure "The best novel I've read this year; a heroine I fell in love with." - Eric Van Series: Cas Russell Lustbader, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Cas Russell is who I want to be when I grow up. She kicks ass with her fists Notes and her (...)

Author Bio Promotion S. L. Huanghas a math degree from MIT and is a weapons expert and professional stuntwoman who has worked in Hollywood on Battlestar Galactica and a number of other productions. Her novels include the Cas Russell series (formerly known as Russel's Attic), which begins with Zero Sum Game . Huang's short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.

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A Conjuring of Assassins by Cate Glass

A Conjuring of Assassins is Cate Class's second adventure with the Chimera team, a ragtag crew who use their forbidden magic for the good of the kingdom. Romy and her three partners in crime - a sword master, a silversmith, and her thieving brother - have embraced their roles as the Shadow Lord's agents, using their forbidden magic to accomplish tasks his other spies cannot. Now, they've been tasked with locating a list of powerful men and women pledged to assassinate the tyrant Protector of Mercediare, Cantagna's most dangerous enemy. Then, they must destroy the list before it falls into the Protector's hands, where it could plunge the entire Costa Drago into a rampage of murderous vengeance. But when Placidio and Romy infiltrate the ambassador's household by impersonating a cloth merchant and an aspiring diviner, they discover that the ambassador's oddities and the prisoner's identity signal dangers far more explosive than exposing the Assassins List

Tor Author Bio On Sale: Feb 4/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 448 pages CATE GLASS was born and raised in Texas, and now resides in the foothills 9781250311023 • $24.50 • pb of the Colorado Rockies with her husband and three sons. She is the author Fic / Fantasy / Action & Adventure of the Chimera novels ( An Illusion of Thieves Series: Chimera

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The Queen of Raiders by Sarah Kozloff

Sarah Kozloff, author of A Queen in Hiding, continues the breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy series The Nine Realms with book two, The Queen of Raiders , and all four books will be published within a month of each other, so you can binge your favorite new fantasy series. The soliders of Oromondo have invaded the Free States, leaving a wake of misery and death. Thalen, a young scholar, survives and gathers a small cadre of guerilla fighters for a one-way mission into the heart of an enemy land. Unconsciously guided by the elemental Spirits of Ennea Mon, Cerulia is drawn to the Land of the Fire Mountains to join Thelan's Raiders, where she will learn the price of war. The Nine Realms Series #1 A Queen in Hiding #2 The Queen of Raiders

Tor Praise for A Queen in Hiding On Sale: Feb 18/20 A deft and exciting beginning to what I am sure will be a really gorgeous saga 5.38 x 8.25 • 512 pages of a girl coming to terms with her destiny." - Melanie Rawn, author of the 9781250168566 • $22.99 • pb Exiles trilogy Fiction / Fantasy / Epic "A breathtaking start to a new fantasy series that abounds in magic, Series: Nine Realms backstabbing, and war. This is your new epic fantasy fix, right here." - Beth Cato, author of Breath of Earth Notes "Sweeping in scope and unabashedly epic - Kozloff has written an instant classic, here. I can't wait for the next one." - Auston Habershaw, author of Iron Promotion and Blood

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Black Leviathan by Bernd Perplies

Melville's Moby Dick unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in Black Leviathan, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perplies. Beware! A shadow will cover you, larger than that cast by any other dragon of this world. Black as the lightless chasm from whence it was born at the beginning of time. In the coastal city Skargakar, residents make a living from hunting dragons and use them for everything from clothing to food, while airborne ships hunt them in the white expanse of a cloud sea, the Cloudmere. Lian does his part carving the kyrillian crystals that power the ships through the Cloudmere, but when he makes an enemy of a dangerous man, Lian ships out on the next vessel available as a drachenjager, or dragon hunter. He chooses the wrong ship. A fanatic captain, hunts more than just any dragon. His goal is the Firstborn Gargantuan - and Adaron is prepared to sacrifice everything for revenge.

Tor Author Bio On Sale: Feb 25/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 336 pages BERND PERPLIES has a great reputation in Germany for a very wide variety 9780765398307 • $25.99 • pb of writing in several genres. He has written the first Star Trek tie-in trilogy Fiction / Fantasy / Epic allowed by CBS outside the U.S. Black Leviathan ( Drachenjager in Germany) was a finalist for Seraph Award, RPC Fantasy Award, and Deutscher Notes Phantastik Preis, which it won in 2018. Black Leviathan is his first novel translated for the U. S.

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Black Leviathan by Bernd Perplies

Tor Author Bio On Sale: Feb 25/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 336 pages BERND PERPLIES has a great reputation in Germany for a very wide variety 9780765398314 • $37.99 • CL - With dust jacket of writing in several genres. He has written the first Star Trek tie-in trilogy Fiction / Fantasy / Epic allowed by CBS outside the U.S. Black Leviathan ( Drachenjager in Germany) was a finalist for Seraph Award, RPC Fantasy Award, and Deutscher Notes Phantastik Preis, which it won in 2018. Black Leviathan is his first novel translated for the U. S.

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The Firmament of Flame by Drew Williams

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Drew Williams has been a bookseller in Birmingham, Alabama since he was sixteen years old, when he got the job because he came in looking for work on a day when someone else had just quit. Outside of arguing with his coworkers about whether Moby Dick is brilliant (nope) or terrible (that one), his favorite part of the job is discovering new authors and sharing them with his customers. Drew is the author of The Universe After series, including The Stars Now Unclaimed

Tor On Sale: Feb 4/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 368 pages 9781250186201 • $25.99 • pb Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera Series: Universe After

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The Firmament of Flame by Drew Williams

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Tor On Sale: Feb 4/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 368 pages 9781250186195 • $39.99 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera Series: Universe After

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Stormsong by C. L. Polk

After spinning an enthralling world in Witchmark, praised as a can't-miss debut" by Booklist, and as "thoroughly charming and deftly paced" by the New York Times, C. L. Polk continues the story in Stormsong . Magical cabals, otherworldly avengers, and impossible love affairs conspire to create a book that refuses to be put down. Dame Grace Hensley helped her brother Miles undo the atrocity that stained her nation, but now she has to deal with the consequences. With the power out in the dead of winter and an uncontrollable sequence of winter storms on the horizon, Aeland faces disaster. Grace has the vision to guide her parents to safety, but a hostile queen and a ring of rogue mages stand in the way of her plans. There's revolution in the air, and any spark could light the powder. What's worse, upstart photojournalist Avia Jessup draws ever closer to secrets that could topple the nation,and closer to Grace's heart. Can Aeland be saved without bloodshed? Or will Kingston die in flames, and Grace along with it? " Tor On Sale: Feb 11/20 PRAISE FOR WITCHMARK 5.38 x 8.25 • 352 pages 9780765398994 • $24.50 • pb C.L. Polk's Witchmark is a delightfully compulsive read. With an intriguing Fiction / Fantasy / Gaslamp alternate world of magic and modernity and the costs of both, and an Series: Kingston Cycle endearing protagonist in Dr. Miles Singer - more, please!" - Carrie Vaughn

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C. L. Polk wrote her first story in grade school and still hasn't learned any better. After spending years in strange occupations and wandering western Canada, she settled in southern Alberta with her rescue dog Otis. She has a fondness for knitting, bicycles, and single estate coffee. C. L. has had short stories published in Baen's UNIVERSE and Gothic.net, and contributed to the web serial Shadow Unit, and spends too much time on Twitter. She is the author of Witchmark.

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Lent by Jo Walton

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth- century Florence - in all its astonishing strangeness

Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles. It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo the Magnificent," the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It's a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it. It's a miracle than whenever Girolamo preaches, crowds swoon. It's a miracle that, despite the Pope's determination to bring young Girolamo to heel, he's still on the loose. . . and, now, running Florence in all but name. That's only the beginning. Because Girolamo Savanarola is not who - or what Tor - he thinks he is. He will discover the truth about himself at the most startling On Sale: Feb 4/20 possible time. And this will be only the beginning of his many lives. 5.38 x 8.25 • 384 pages "Rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty. . . It's this haunting 9780765379078 • $24.50 • pb character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale." Fiction / Fantasy / Historical - N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, on My Real Children

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Brilliant, compelling, and frankly unputdownable." - NPR on The Just City Promotion "Rendered with (...) Author Bio

Jo Walton won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer on publication of her debut novel The King's Peace . She won the World Fantasy Award in 2004 for Tooth and Claw, and in 2012, the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Among Others . In addition to writing SF and fantasy, she has also designed role-playing games and published poetry. Her song The Lurkers Support Me In Email" has been quoted innumerable times in online discussions all over the world, frequently without attribution. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.

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China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF.

A first novel this good gives every reader a chance to share in the pleasure of discovery; to my mind, Ms. McHugh's achievement recalls the best work of Tor Delany and Robinson without being in the least derivative." - The New York On Sale: Feb 18/20 Times 5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages "It's a rare writer who produces a novel this good. . . .I can't think of a book 9781250237408 • $24.50 • pb that offers a more lived-in future. The people are impulsive, changeable, and Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk very real. Lovers of fine fiction, SF, and otherwise, will treasure this deeply humane book. Five stars." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune Notes

Author Bio Promotion With her groundbreaking novel, China Mountain Zhang,Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.

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Three Californias The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

Three Californias is the brilliant sf trilogy ( The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, Pacific Edge ) that launched the career of international bestseller Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Red Mars and 2312 . Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures - one a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopia - form a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires.

The Wild Shore was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Ursula K. Le Guin hailed it as A fresh wind blowing". The second of the trilogy, The Gold Coast, is a manic, savage look at the craziness of technology out of control. The third, Pacific Edge, is a Utopia, where humanity tries to live in harmony with the natural world, but greed is still a force, and hearts still break. Pacific Edge won the John W. Tor Campbell Award for Best Novel. On Sale: Feb 18/20 With a new introduction by Francis Spufford, bestselling author of Golden Hill . 6.12 x 9.25 • 848 pages " 9781250307569 • $33.99 • pb Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post- The Wild Shore Apocalyptic There's a fresh wind blowing in The Wild Shore. Welcome, Kim Stanley Series: Three Californias Robinson." - Ursula K. Le Guin "Part Huck Finn and part Our Town, Robinson's first novel is a well-written, Notes engaging rite of passage. . . " - Publishers Weekly

" C aptivating and unflaggingly readable. . . " - Washington Post Book World Promotion "This rich fable is warm but excoriatingly honest and connects with the vulnerable cynicism so many (...)

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KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards - a first for any book. 2008 he was named a Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers' Workshop, and UC San Diego's Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named "Kimrobinson." In 2017 he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award

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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks." Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her - a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.

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Hugo and Campbell finalist SARAH GAILEY came onto the scene in 2015 and has since become one of the sharpest, funniest voices in pop culture online. They are a regular contributor for multiple websites, including Tor.com. Their nonfiction has appeared in Mashable and The Boston Globe, and their fiction Tor has been published internationally. They are the author of River of Teeth and On Sale: Feb 4/20 Taste of Marrow . They live lives in Los Angeles, California. 5 x 8 • 176 pages 9781250213587 • $28.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure

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Docile by K.M. Szpara

There is no consent under capitalism Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Elisha Wilder's family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family's debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him. Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution.When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family's crowning achievement could have any negative side effects - and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile Tor without it. On Sale: Mar 3/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 496 pages 9781250216151 • $37.99 • CL - With dust jacket Don't call K.M. Szpara's Docile a dystopia. This book is something much Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech stranger and yet closer to our own reality. Szpara has an amazing gift for immersing us in a world of exploitation and unbearable tenderness, and Notes making it feel familiar and inescapable. Reading Docile changed (...)

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-ABM mailing with author's personal Horizons, and more. Kellan has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard statement followed by belly-banded ARCs, a free Divinity School, which he totally uses at his day job as a paralegal. You can digital preview and find him on the Internet at kmszpara.com and on Twitter at @kmszpara.

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Servant of the Crown by Duncan M. Hamilton

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Duncan M. Hamilton holds Master's Degrees in History and Law, and has practiced as a barrister. He lives in Ireland, near the sea. Hamilton's debut novel, The Tattered Banner, first of the Society of the Sword trilogy, was named one of BuzzFeed's 12 Greatest Fantasy Books Of The Year in 2013. That book was followed by The Huntsman's Amulet and The Telastrian Song, and by Wolf of the North, a Norse-inspired fantasy trilogy.

Tor On Sale: Mar 10/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 336 pages 9781250306852 • $24.50 • pb Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Series: Dragonslayer

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Servant of the Crown by Duncan M. Hamilton

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Tor On Sale: Mar 10/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 336 pages 9781250306845 • $37.99 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Series: Dragonslayer

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Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.

Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She's a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics - from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs - are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end. Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island's economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. Tor As these forces collide, a war erupts - between the rich and the poor; between On Sale: Mar 10/20 tradition and modern ambition; between humanity's past and its future. 6.12 x 9.25 • 352 pages Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or 9780765389336 • $25.99 • pb change the rules of the game altogether. Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain.Chen Notes (...)

Author Bio Promotion Chen Qiufanis an award-winning science fiction writer. He grew up near Guiyu, China, home to the world's largest e-waste recycling center, an area the UN called an environmental calamity." His experiences there inspired the Waste Tide. He currently lives in Shanghai and Beijing and works as the founder of Thema Mundi Studio. Ken Liu's fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places. He is the author of The Grace of Kings, and has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. He edited and translated the Chinese science fiction anthology Invisible Planets . He lives near Boston with his family.

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Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights edited by Patrick Weekes

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PATRICK WEEKES is a senior writer at BioWare(TM) and has contributed to all three of the award-winning Mass Effect (TM) games. His stories have appeared in Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, and Strange Horizons. He has also published a stand-alone fantasy novel.

Tor On Sale: Mar 10/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 368 pages 9780765337221 • $25.99 • pb Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy Series: Dragon Age

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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger) A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. An enchanting love story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place - and realizing that family is yours.

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TJ Klune is the author of many books including The House in the Cerulean Sea (forthcoming from Tor Books) and The Extraordinaries (forthcoming from Tor Teen). Being queer himself, TJ believes it's important - now more than ever - to have accurate, positive, queer representation in stories. Tor Visit Klune online at TJKluneBooks.com, on Twitter as @tjklune, and On Sale: Mar 17/20 Instagram as @tjklunebooks. 6.12 x 9.25 • 352 pages 9781250217288 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary

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A Broken Queen by Sarah Kozloff

Sarah Kozloff, author of Queen of Raiders, continues her breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy series The Nine Realms with book three, A Broken Queen , and all four books will be published within a month of each other, so you can binge your favorite new fantasy series. Time can heal all wounds, but not all wounds are visible. Barely surviving her ordeal in Oromondo and scarred by its Fire Spirit, Cerulia is taken to a recovery house in Wyeland to heal from the trauma. In a ward with others who are all bound to serve each other, she discovers that not all scars are visible, and dying can be done with grace and acceptance. While she would like to stay in this place of healing, will she ever be able to the peace she has found to re-take the throne? The Nine Realms Series #1 A Queen in Hiding #2 The Queen of Raiders #3 A Broken Queen

Tor On Sale: Mar 24/20 Praise for A Queen in Hiding 5.38 x 8.25 • 448 pages 9781250168665 • $22.99 • pb A deft and exciting beginning to what I am sure will be a really gorgeous saga Fiction / Fantasy / Epic of a girl coming to terms with her destiny." - Melanie Rawn, author of the Series: Nine Realms Exiles trilogy "A breathtaking start to a new fantasy series that abounds in magic, Notes backstabbing, and war. This is your new epic fantasy fix, right here." - Beth Cato, author of Breath of Earth

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Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing, a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award- winning novel Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were a New York Times bestsellers. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.

Tor On Sale: Mar 3/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 304 pages 9781250229250 • $22.99 • pb Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories

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Otaku by Chris Kluwe

Tor On Sale: Mar 3/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages 9781250203939 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure

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Among Others by Jo Walton

Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment. Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled - and her twin sister dead. Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England-a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like- minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing Tor about a reckoning that could no longer be put off. . . On Sale: Mar 3/20 Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the 5.38 x 8.25 • 304 pages manner of novels like Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, this is 9781250237767 • $22.99 • pb potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary hailed (...)

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Invisible Sun by Charles Stross

The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun - the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State - as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines. A inter-timline coup d'etat gone awry. A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin. And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole, wreaking havoc in the USA. Can disgraced worldwalker Rita and her intertemporal extraordaire agent of a mother neutralize the livewire contention between their respective timelines before it's too late?

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Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Tor Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, On Sale: Mar 14/20 Accelerando, and Saturn's Children . Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross 6.12 x 9.25 • 320 pages studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer 9780765337580 • $37.99 • cl science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist Series: Empire Games covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Notes Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

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Chapel of Ease by Alex Bledsoe

Chapel of Ease, first time in trade paperback: Alex Bledsoe's critically- acclaimed Tufa series about musically-talented fae in rural Tennessee, a series Kirkus Reviews calls powerful, character-driven drama. . . a sheer delight." (starred review) "Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways." - Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author When Matt Johansson, a young New York actor, auditions forChapel of Ease, an off-Broadway musical, he is instantly charmed by Ray Parrish, the show's writer and composer. They soon become friends; Matt learns that Ray's people call themselves the Tufa and that the musical is based on the history of his isolated home town. But there is one question in the show's script that Ray refuses to answer: what is buried in the ruins of the chapel of ease? As opening night approaches, strange things begin to happen. A dreadlocked girl follows Ray and spies on him. At the press preview, a strange Tufa woman warns him to stop the show. Then, as the rave reviews arrive, Ray dies in his sleep. Tor Matt and the cast are distraught, but there's no question of shutting down: the On Sale: Mar 17/20 run quickly sells out. They postpone opening night for a week and Matt 5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages volunteers to take Ray's ashes back to Needsville. He also hopes, while he's 9780765376572 • $24.50 • pb there, to find out more of the real story behind the play and discover the secret Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary that Ray took to his grave. Series: Tufa Novels Matt's journey into the haunting Appalachian mountains of Cloud County sets him on a dangerous path, where some secrets deserve to stay buried. Notes Enter the (...)

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ALEX BLEDSOE is the author of the Eddie LaCrosse novels (The Sword- Edged Blonde, Burn Me Deadly, Dark Jenny, and Wake of the Bloody Angel), the novels of the Tufa (The Hum and Shiver, Wisp of a Thing, Long Black Curl, and Chapel of Ease), and the Memphis Vampires (Blood Groove and Girls with Games of Blood). Bledsoe grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He now lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery Book Two in the Risen Kingdoms by Curtis Craddock

The Three Musketeers meets Jules Verne in A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery, the masterful second novel in Curtis Craddock's critically- acclaimed high fantasy Risen Kingdoms series, continuing the engrossing tale of courtly intrigue and breathtaking magic. Isabelle des Zephyrs has always been underestimated throughout her life, but after discovering the well of hidden magic within her, unveiling a centuries- long conspiracy, and stopping a war between rival nations, she has gained a newfound respect amongst the cutthroat court. All that is quickly taken away when Isabelle is unfairly convicted of breaking the treaty she helped write and has her political rank and status taken away. Now bereft, she nevertheless finds herself drawn into mystery when her faithful musketeer Jean-Claude uncovers a series of gruesome murders by someone calling themselves the Harvest King. As panic swells, the capital descends into chaos, when the emperor is usurped from the throne by a rival noble. Betrayed by their allies and hunted Tor by assassins, Isabelle and Jean-Claude alone must thwart the coup, but not On Sale: Mar 25/20 before it changes l'Empire forever. 6.12 x 9.25 • 416 pages A gripping tale of a woman who refuses to be defined by her physical Includes one black-and-white map and magical limitations, thwarting both assassins and all who see her as 9780765389633 • $25.99 • pb a pawn. A great read!" - #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Fic / Fantasy / Action & Adventure Sanderson, on An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors Series: Risen Kingdoms The Risen Kingdom series #1 An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors Notes #2 A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery "

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Curtis Craddock lives in Sterling, CO where he teaches English to inmates in a state penitentiary. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors is his first book.

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The Poet King The Harp and Ring Sequence #3 by Ilana C. Myer

Prophecies unfold, legends turn real, and a war of mythical proportions endangers the realm in Ilana C. Myer's epic fantasy The Poet King, the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed Fire Dance

After a surprising upheaval, the nation of Tamryllin has a new ruler: Elissan Diar, who proclaims himself the first Poet King. Not all in court is happy with this regime change, as Rianna secretly schemes against him while she investigates a mysterious weapon he hides in the bowels of the palace. Meanwhile, a civil war rages in a distant land, and former Court Poet Lin Amaristoth gathers allies old and new to return to Tamryllin in time to stop the coronation. For the Poet King's ascension is connected with to a darker, more sinister prophecy which threatens to unleash a battle out of legend unless Lin and her friends can stop it.

Tor For Ilana C. Myer On Sale: Mar 24/20 Gorgeous. Fans of fantasy intrigue will like this one." - The Washington Post 6.12 x 9.25 • 304 pages "Intricate, enthralling, and devastating." - Yoon Ha Lee, author of Ninefox 9780765378347 • $38.50 • CL - With dust jacket Gambit Fiction / Fantasy / Epic "A wondrous world matched in beauty only by the prose in which it is sung. Series: Harp and Ring Sequence Ilana Myer is incredible." - Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings "A brilliantly imagined page-turner. . . uses lush, lyrical prose to propel the Notes reader through the machinations of a wildly original fantasy world. Highly recommended." - Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char "With its lush bouquet of elegance, intrigue, and passion, Fire Dance is Myer Promotion at her most intoxicating." - Mishell Baker, author of (...)

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ILANA C. MYER lives in New York City. Under her real name, Ilana Teitelbaum, she has written for The Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and The Huffington Post . Previously she was a freelance journalist in Jerusalem for the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Daily Forward, Time Out Israel, and other publications. Fire Dance is her second novel, following Last Song Before Night.

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The Last Emperox by John Scalzi

The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems - and billions of people - are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction . . . and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known. Emperox Grayland II has finally wrested control of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of this collapse. But control" is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people form impoverished isolation, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power, by any means necessary. Grayland and her thinning list of allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves, and all of humanity. And yet it may not be Tor enough. On Sale: Apr 14/20 Will Grayland become the savior of her civilization . . . or the last emperox to 5.38 x 8.25 • 336 pages wear the crown? 9780765389169 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket The Interdependency Series Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera 1. The Collapsing Empire Series: Interdependency 2. The Consuming Fire 3. The Last Emperox Notes "

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John Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts, and his debut novel Old Man's War was a finalist for Hugo Award as well. His other books include The Ghost Brigades, The Android's Dream, The Last Colony and The Human Division . He has won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for science-fiction, the Seiun, The Kurd Lasswitz and the Geffen awards. His weblog, The Whatever, is one of the most widely-read web sites in modern SF. Born and

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The Glass Magician by Caroline Stevermer

Reminiscent of The Golem and the Jinni, The Glass Magician by Caroline Stevermer is a magical and romantic tale set in New York's Gilded Age. New York 1905 - The Vanderbilts. The Astors. The Morgans. They are the cream of society - and they own the nation on the cusp of a new century. Thalia Cutler doesn't have any of those family connections. What she does know is stage magic and she dazzles audiences with an act that takes your breath away. That is, until one night when a trick goes horribly awry. In surviving she discovers that she can shapeshift, and has the potential to take her place among the rich and powerful. But first, she'll have to learn to control that power. . . before the real monsters descend to feast.

Praise for The Glass Magician Tor A delicious read - elegant, neat, sprightly, well-defined and likeable On Sale: Apr 7/20 characters. . . I absolutely loved it." - Genevieve Cogman, author of The 5.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages Invisible Library series 9780765335043 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket "Sprightly and inventive!" - Elizabeth Bear Fiction / Fantasy / Historical "Stevermer has re-imagined New York's gilded age to perfection. . . pure fantasy and fascinating, a prickly murder mystery, and a bevy of strong Notes women, both young and old. I'm sure there will be a sequel. Well, I hope there will be a sequel. There had better be a sequel!" - Jane Yolen Praise for Caroline Stevermer Promotion "I want to live inside Caroline Stevermer's books. Her characters are clever, courageous, and charming." - Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author "Caroline Stevermer has a wonderfully light touch. . . a deft and witty interweaving of (...)

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CAROLINE STEVERMER is best known for her historical fantasy novels, particularly for her Scholarly Magic series ( A College of Magics, A Scholar of Magics, and When The King Comes Home ), which Terri Windling said had, sly wit and sparkling prose that have earned her a cult following". She is also the author of River Rats, which was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and received the Golden Duck Award and Golden Kite Award. Stevermer graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in art history and currently lives in Minnesota.

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The Cerulean Queen by Sarah Kozloff

Sarah Kozloff's breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy series The Nine Realms, which began with A Queen in Hiding, comes to a thrilling conclusion in The Cerulean Queen. The true queen of Weirandale has returned. Cerulia has done the impossible and regained the throne. However, she's inherited a council of traitors, a realm in chaos, and a war with Oromondo. Now a master of her Gift, to return order to her kingdom she will use all she has learned - humility, leadership, compassion, selflessness, and the necessity of ruthlessness. The Nine Realms Series #1 A Queen in Hiding #2 The Queen of Raiders #3 A Broken Queen #4 The Cerulean Queen

Tor On Sale: Apr 21/20 Praise for A Queen in Hiding 5.38 x 8.25 • 480 pages A deft and exciting beginning to what I am sure will be a really gorgeous saga 9781250168962 • $22.99 • pb of a girl coming to terms with her destiny." - Melanie Rawn, author of the Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Exiles trilogy Series: Nine Realms "A breathtaking start to a new fantasy series that abounds in magic, backstabbing, and war. This is your new epic fantasy fix, right here." - Beth Notes Cato, author of Breath of Earth

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You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

Cassandra Tipp is dead. . . or is she?

After all, the notorious recluse and eccentric bestselling novelist has always been prone to flights of fancy - everyone in town remembers the shocking events leading up to Cassie's infamous trial (she may have been acquitted, but the insanity defense only stretches so far).

Cassandra Tipp has left behind no body - just her massive fortune, and one final manuscript.

Then again, there are enough bodies in her past - her husband Tommy Tipp, whose mysterious disembowlment has never been solved, and a few years later, the shocking murder-suicide of her father and brother.

Cassandra Tipp will tell you a story - but it will come with a terrible price. What really happened, out there in the woods - and who has Cassie been protecting Tor all along? Read on, if you dare. . . On Sale: Apr 21/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 224 pages You Let Me In delivers a stunning tale from debut author Camilla Bruce, 9781250302045 • $34.99 • CL - With dust jacket combining the sinister domestic atmosphere of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects with the otherwordly thrills of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the Notes End of the Lane.

Author Bio Promotion CAMILLA BRUCE is a Norwegian writer and sometimes editor, passionate about storytelling, coffee and cats. Her debut novel with Tor is coming out in 2020. camillabruce.com Twitter: @millacream Instagram: camillabruce_writing

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The Baron of Magister Valley by Steven Brust

From the vaults of Dragaeran history and the mind of master fantasist Steven Brust - a tale of betrayal and vengeance that is not at all a retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo

Reader, you will undoubtedly have had the misfortune of consuming the rotten fruit of fallacies that we - Paarfi of Roundwood (esteemed historian of House of Hawk and exquisite artisan of truths) - borrow" our factual recount of Dragaeran history from some obscure fellow who goes by the name Al Dumas or some silly nomenclature of that nature. The salacious claims that The Baron of Magister Valley bears any resemblance to a certain nearly fictional narrative about an infamous count are unfounded ( we do not dabble in tall tales. The occasional moderately stretched? Yes. But never tall). Our tale is that of a nobleman who is betrayed by those he trusted, and subsequently imprisoned. After centuries of confinement, he contrives to escape and prepares to avenge himself against his betrayers. Tor A mirror image of The Count of Monte Cristo, vitrolic naysayers still grouse? On Sale: Feb 25/20 Well, that is nearly and utterly false. 6.12 x 9.25 • 448 pages Standalones in The Khaavren Romances Series 9781250311474 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket 1. The Phoenix Guards Fiction / Fantasy / Epic 2. Five Hundred Years After Series: Viscount of Adrilankha 3. The Paths of the Dead 4. The Lorde of Castle Black Notes 5. Sethra Lavode 6. The Baron of Magister Valley " Promotion Praise for Steven Brust

Surprisingly resonant� another solid entry in the series." - RT Review, 4 stars, on Vallista

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Steven Brust is the bestselling author of Issola, Dragon, The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After, and many others. A native of Minneapolis, he currently lives in Las Vegas.

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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame . Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He's not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn't attained

Tor Author Bio On Sale: Apr 7/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 528 pages SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, 9781250234209 • $26.99 • pb the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls and Notes horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the Promotion same Hugo ballot.

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Blindsight by Peter Watts

Canadian writer Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with the Hugo and Campbell Award finalist and Locus Award winning Blindsight Two months since the stars fell. . . Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route . So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to Tor command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled On Sale: Apr 21/20 from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of 5.38 x 8.25 • 384 pages sociopaths. And you send a synthesist - an informational topologist with half 9781250237484 • $25.99 • pb his mind gone - as an interface between here and there . Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. Notes

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Peter Watts is a former marine biologist and the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of novels such as Starfish, Maelstrom and Behemoth, and numerous short stories. He has been called a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive" by The Globe and Mail and whose work the New York Times called "seriously paranoid.

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Repo Virtual by Corey J. White

Corey J. White's debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.

The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities - augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He's been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he's stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.

Author Bio Tor COREY J. WHITE is a writer of science-fiction, horror, and other, harder to On Sale: Apr 21/20 define stories. He studied writing at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, and 5.38 x 8.25 • 352 pages is now based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Killing Gravity, Void 9781250218728 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket Black Shadow, and Static Ruin Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk

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Broken Stars Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu

The stories in Broken Stars span from short-shorts to novellas, evoking every hue on the emotional spectrum, and demonstrating the vibrancy and diversity of science fiction being written in China. The anthology features works of hard science fiction, cyberpunk, science fantasy, and space opera, as well as genres with deeper ties to Chinese culture: alternate Chinese history, chuanyue time travel, satire with historical and contemporary allusions. Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore the history of Chinese science fiction publishing, the state of contemporary Chinese fandom, and how the growing interest in science fiction in China has impacted writers who had long labored in obscurity. Stories include: Tor Goodnight, Melancholy" by Xia Jia On Sale: Apr 14/20 "The Snow of Jinyang" by Zhang Ran 5.38 x 8.25 • 480 pages "Broken Stars" by Tang Fei 9781250297686 • $25.99 • pb "Submarines" by Han Song Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories "Salinger and the Koreans" by Han Song "Under a Dangling Sky" by Cheng Jingbo Notes "What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear" by Baoshu "The New Year Train" by Hao Jingfang "The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales" by Fei Dao Promotion "Moonlight" by Liu Cixin "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge" by Anna Wu "The First Emperor's Games" by Ma Boyong "Reflection" by Gu Shi "The Brain Box" by Regina Kanyu Wang "Coming of the Light" by Chen Qiufan "A History of Future Illnesses" by Chen Qiufan Essays: "A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and (...)

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Ken Liu's fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places. He is the author of The Grace of Kings, and has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. He edited and translated the Chinese

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Daughter of the Forest Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier

Juliet Marillier brings us a beautifully re-imagined version of the Six Swans myth in Daughter of the Forest . Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift - by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever. When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the Tor strongest magic of them all. . . On Sale: Apr 21/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 416 pages 9781250238665 • $25.99 • pb Praise for Daughter of the Forest Fiction / Fantasy / Historical What sets Marillier's work apart is how she wraps this traditional plot with Series: Sevenwaters Trilogy deeply individualized characters and a beautifully realized background of Ireland in the Dark Ages." - VOYA Notes "Sterling characterizations, perfect pacing, appropriately marvelous fairy subplots, and vivid descriptive passages make for a flawless launching of a fantasy trilogy." - Booklist (Starred Review) Promotion "Marillier is a fine folklorist and a gifted narrator who has created a wholly appealing and (...)

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JULIET MARILLIER achieved international recognition with the publication of the first two award-winning novels in the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a historical fantasy set in Ireland and Britain in the ninth century, and loosely based on the fairy tale The Six Swans". Her other historical fantasy series include the Viking-inspired Light Isles duology and the Bridei Chronicles set in north Britain in the time of the Picts.

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The Red-Stained Wings The Lotus Kingdoms, Book Two by Elizabeth Bear

Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to the epic fantasy world of the Lotus Kingdoms with The Red-Stained Wings, the sequel to The Stone in the Skull, taking the Gage into desert lands under a deadly sky to answer the riddle of the Stone in the Skull. The Gage and the Dead Man brought a message from the greatest wizard of Messaline to the ruling queen of Sarathai, one of the Lotus Kingdoms. But the message was a riddle, and the Lotus Kingdoms are at war. Elizabeth Bear created her secondary world of the Eternal Sky in her highly praised novel The Range of Ghosts and its sequels. The Lotus Kingdoms #1 The Stone in the Skull #2 The Red-Stained Wings The Eternal Sky Trilogy #1 Range of Ghosts #2 Shattered Pillars Tor #3 Steles of the Sky On Sale: Apr 7/20 6.12 x 9.25 • 384 pages 9780765380166 • $25.99 • pb Praise for The Stone in the Skull Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Elizabeth Bear sweeps the reader into a world of ravishing detail." - Series: Lotus Kingdoms Huffington Post

Notes "Amazing worldbuilding, gloriously precise prose, and excellent pacing." - Tor. com "The Eternal Sky trilogy is one of the great fantasy epics of the last decade, Promotion and Bear triumphantly returns to that setting." - Library Journal "Glorious and dramatic." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "The plot hews closely to the whole band-of-rogues-assemble-to-fight- stronger-band-of-foes . . . Bear noodles around that trope like a jazz master and takes the story to some interesting places . . ." - Locus "This is a promising beginning indeed for an epic . . . and it will no doubt be a magnificent (...)

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Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. This, coupled with a tendency to read the dictionary as a child, doomed her early to penury, intransigence, friendlessness, and the writing of speculative fiction. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in central Connecticut with the exception of two years (which she was too young to remember very well) spent in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, in the last house with electricity before the Canadian border.

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Queen A Chronicle of the Sybil's War by Timothy Zahn

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Timothy Zahn is the author of more than forty science fiction novels. He has also written many short stories, as well as Cascade Point, which won the Hugo Award for best novella. His other works include the Dragonback series, of which Dragon and Thief was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and the bestselling Star Wars(TM) novel, Heir to the Empire . Zahn lives in Oregon.

Tor On Sale: Apr 14/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages 9780765329684 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact Series: Sibyl's War

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Texas Hold'em A Wild Cards novel by Wild Cards Trust, edited by George R. R. Martin

Soon to be a show on Hulu!

Texas Hold'em: A Wild Cards Novel is an adventure in the bestselling shared-universe science fiction superhero series, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin. San Antonio, home of the Alamo, is also host to the nation's top high school jazz competition, and the musicians at Xavier Desmond High are excited to outplay their rivals. They are also jokers, kids with strange abilities and even stranger looks. On top of that, well, they are teenagers, apt for mischief, mishaps, and romantic misunderstandings. Michelle Pond, aka The Amazing Bubbles, thinks that her superhero (and supermom) know-how has prepared her to chaperone the event. But when her students start going wayward, she'll soon discover the true meaning of Don't mess with Texas."

Tor Texas Hold'em features the writing talents of David Anthony Durham (Acacia On Sale: Apr 14/20 Trilogy), Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence), Victor Milan (Dinosaur Lords 6.12 x 9.25 • 384 pages series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series), Walton 9780765390608 • $25.99 • pb Simons, Caroline Spector and William F. Wu. Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure Rights to develop Wild Cards have been acquired by Universal Cable Series: Wild Cards Productions, the team behind The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the coeditor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass, as executive producer. Notes The Wild Cards Universe The Original Triad #1 Wild Cards Promotion #2 Aces High #3 Jokers Wild The Puppetman Quartet #4: Aces Abroad #5: Down and Dirty #6: Ace in the Hole #7: Dead Man's Hand The (...)

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George R.R. Martinhas been a full-time writer for over 25 years. He is the author of the acclaimed, internationally bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which is the basis of HBO's popular Game of Thrones television series. Martin has won multiple science fiction awards, including 4 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, the Bram Stoker, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Daedelus, the Balrog, and the Daikon (Japanese Hugo). The Wild Cards Trust

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The Revenant Express A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation by George Mann

The grand adventure continues in George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk mystery series, as a Victorian special agent races across a continent to save his beloved's life on board The Revenant Express . Sir Maurice Newbury is bereft as his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes lies dying with a wounded heart. Newbury and Veronica's sister Amelia must take a sleeper train across Europe to St. Petersberg to claim a clockwork heart that Newbury has commissioned from Faberge to save Veronica from a life trapped in limbo. No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge. Can Newbury and Amelia defeat him and get the clockwork organ back to the Fixer in time to save Veronica? And can they do so without Newbury going so far into the dark side of occult magic that he can never return? Meanwhile, Sir Charles Bainbridge is the only one of their team left in London Tor to struggle with a case involving a series of horrific crimes. Someone is On Sale: Apr 28/20 kidnapping prominent men and infecting them with the Revenant plague, 5.38 x 8.25 • 240 pages leaving them chained in various locations around the city. But why? 9780765334114 • $22.99 • pb It's a rousing chase to save both London and Veronica. Will these brave Fiction / Science Fiction / Steampunk detectives be up to the task? Series: Newbury & Hobbes Newbury & Hobbes Investigations #1: The Affinity Bridge Notes #2: The Osirus Ritual #3: The Immortality Engine #4: The Executioner's Heart Promotion #5: The Revenant Express

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GEORGE MANN is the author of the Newbury & Hobbes Investigations, beginning with The Affinity Bridge, and other works of fiction including Ghosts of Manhattan and official Doctor Who tie-in material. He edited the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction anthology series and The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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Finna by Nino Cipri

Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange. When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi- dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.

Tor Funny as hell, scary as f*ck, and so full of heart I didn't want it to end. A On Sale: Feb 25/20 magnificent must-read." - Sam J Miller 5 x 8 • 144 pages "Cipri has written the blue-collar fantasy I've wanted to read for decades, 9781250245731 • $20.50 • pb minimum wage and maximum weird." - Meg Elison Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure

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NINO CIPRI is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator. They Promotion are a graduate of the Clarion Writing Workshop and the University of Kansas's MFA program. Their award-winning debut fiction collection Homesick will be out from Dzanc Books in 2019, and their novella Finna will be published by Tor.com in the spring of 2020. Nino has also written plays, poetry, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. One time, an angry person on the internet called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty funny. You can talk to Nino on Facebook or Twitter @ninocipri, or on their website, ninocipri.com.

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Tor On Sale: Mar 24/20 5 x 8 • 112 pages 9781250750303 • $16.50 • pb Fic / Fantasy / Action & Adventure

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