198 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 Lonely Castle in the Mirror Mizuki Tsujimira n a tranquil neighborhood of seven students are avoiding going to school I– hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends – until the moment they find the mirrors in their bedrooms are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives into to a wondrous castle straight out of a Grimm’s fairy tale. This whimsical place, oddly lacking in food and running water but full of electrical sockets, is home to a petulant girl in a mask, named Wolf Queen and becomes their playground and refuge during school hours. Hidden within the walls they're told is a key that will grant one wish, and a set of clues with which to find it. But there's a catch: the key must • Bestselling, prizewinning, be found by the end of the school year and they must leave the premises by five international success: Lonely Castle o'clock each day or else suffer a fatal end. has sold half a million copies and was a #1 bestseller in . It was As time passes, a devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share the winner of the Japan Booksellers their stories will be saved. And so they begin to unlock each other's stories: how Award, voted for by the booksellers a boy is showered with more gadgets than love; how another suffers a painful across Japan. rights have sold in Italy, France, Taiwan, Korea, and unexplained rejection and how a girl lives in fear of her predatory stepfather. China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. As they struggle to abide by the rules of the game, a moving story unfolds, of seven characters trapped in a cycle of misunderstanding and loneliness, who are • Literary lineage: the translator Philip ultimately set free by the power of friendship, empathy, and sacrifice. Gabriel is an enormously prominent Japanese translator whose works Exploring vivid human stories with a twisty and puzzle-like plot, this heart- include works by Nobel Prize- warming is full of joy and hope for anyone touched by sadness and winner Kenzaburo Oe such as vulnerability. At the heart of this tender, playful tale is a powerful message about Somersault, and and short fiction by including the importance of reaching out which shows how with one kind act you can . He is the recipient of the change your life for the better, and more importantly, you can change the lives of 2001 Sasakawa Prize for Japanese others. Literature, the 2001 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translation of , and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the- Month Club Translation Prize for .

• Japanese cultural cachet: there is a strong interest in Japanese culture as a source of both high culture (many prominent international artists and literary authors) and popular culture (anime, manga, horror and samurai films).

Mizuki Tsujimira is a Japanese writer from Fuefuki, Yamanashi. Tsujimura writes both for adults and children and Lonely Castle in the Mirror specializes in mystery novels. She is the winner of the 2018 400 pages; 5½" x 8½" Jacketed Hardcover: HARDCOVER Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Kagami no Kojo(Lonely $27.95/$36.95 Can. Castle in the Mirror). After being shortlisted several times for the ISBN: 978-1-64566-040-8 Naoki Prize, she finally received the prize in 2012 for Kagi no No. 516040 nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key). EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 199 Day Boy Trent Jamieson Mark is a Day Boy. In a post-traumatic future the Masters—formerly human, now practically immortal—rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed. Invincible by night, all but helpless by day, each relies on his Day Boy to serve and protect him. Mark has been lucky in his Master: Dain has treated him well. But as he grows to manhood and his time as a Day Boy draws to a close, there are choices to be made. Will Mark undergo the Change and become, himself, a Master—or throw in his lot with his fellow humans? As the tensions in his conflicted world reach crisis • Australian prizewinner: when it point, Mark’s decision may be crucial, and teach him what it means to become a was published a few years ago in Australia, Day Boy won the Aurealis man, or decide to remain one. Award for Best Novel AND Best Horror Novel and was shortlisted for the Ditmar Award for Best Novel, Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award, and the International DUBLIN Literary Award, Ireland, but was never published in the US, so we are pleased to give this award winning book its US Debut.

• Vampire resurgence: we have seen a strong uptick in interest in vampire stories over the past few years, from the comedic (What We Do In the Shadows) to the literary/cinematic (Only Lovers Left Alive, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night) and this is a lovely and subtle addition to the canon.

• Companion to the Stone Road: Day Boy is set in the same world as The Stone Road, which we are launching in Spring 2021. The two books stand alone but share some characters so it is especially interesting to read them as companion pieces.

Trent Jamieson is a multi-award winning Australian writer. He's the author of the Death Works series and the Nightbound Author Land duology, as well as The Stone Road and Day Boy. When Day Boy 320 pages; 5½" x 8½" Photo he’s not writing, Trent works as a bookseller at Avid Reader in Jacketed Hardcover: HARDCOVER (optional) Brisbane, where he runs the monthly SF Bookclub. $25.95/$34.95 Can. ISBN: 978-1-64566-026-2 No. 516026 200 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 Rise of the Red Hand Olivia Chadha rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia. The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs.

Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries • Accessible story about current fighting the government, which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that issues: This is a tight, exciting sci-fi dictates every citizen’s fate. She’s a smuggler with the best robotic arm and novel that addresses important topics like poverty and class cybernetic enhancements the slums can offer, and her cargo includes the most stratification, global warming, and vulnerable of the city’s abandoned children. bioethics When Ashiva crosses paths with the brilliant hacker Riz-Ali, a privileged • OwnVoices representation: Story in Uplander who finds himself embroiled in the Red Hand’s dangerous activities, futuristic South Asia written by an they uncover a horrifying conspiracy that the government will do anything to Indian-American author, with unique bury. From armed guardians kidnapping children to massive robots flattening perspective that’s in demand among the slums, to a pandemic that threatens to sweep through the city like wildfire, English language readers hungry for representation, especially in school/ Ashiva and Riz-Ali will have to put aside their differences in order to fight the library markets. system and save the communities they love from destruction. • Exciting, versatile new voice: A promising writer of color who has published comic books and literary fiction, demonstrating great range and ability to cross genres.

• For ages 13 and up

Olivia Chadha began her writing career in Los Angeles writing comic book scripts for Fathom. She has a Ph.D in creative Author writing from Binghamton University and a master's in creative Rise of the Red Hand 384 pages; 5½" x 8½" Photo writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research Trade Paperback: PAPERBACK (optional) centers on exile, folklore and fairy tales, and the environment. $10.95/$14.95 Can. She is first-generation American of Punjabi Sikh and Latvian/ ISBN: 978-1-64566-033-0 German descent and lives in Colorado with her family. No. 516033 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 201 The Beholden Cassandra Rose Clarke rphaned as young women, Celestia and Izara De Malena are land rich but Odestitute, with only a failing rainforest acreage, Celestia’s perfect manners, and Izara’s nascent magic to their aristocratic names. With their money running out, they enact a dangerous plan—using an obscure spell, Izara demands a favor from the Lady of the Seraphine: a husband for Celestia, one rich enough to enable the sisters to keep their land. But a favor from the river goddess always comes at a cost... Five years later, rumors of war and disease are spreading, Celestia’s husband has been called away on secret business for the Emperor, and the Lady of the Seraphine is back to collect her due, forcing Izara to leave the academy where she has been studying magic and pulling Celestia from her now-flourishing farm • Critically acclaimed writer: Clarke while newly pregnant. Together, the sisters must repay their debt—embarking has placed in the Rhysling Awards on a mission that puts them on a collision course with Celestia’s husband, the and been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Emperor, and a god even more powerful than the Lady. Reviewers Choice Award, and the Gorgeous, compelling, and utterly captivating, The Beholden follows two sisters’ Pushcart Prize. journey from lush rainforest to frozen desert on a quest to find a hidden god and • Strong female leads: Two sisters, a prevent the end of the world. savvy noblewoman who is pregnant during their quest (rare in fantasy) and a scholar of dangerous magic, strike a world-changing bargain with a goddess.

• Mythology and environmentalism: The ways humans, gods, and nature impact each other, and themes of death and the cycle of life, are fascinatingly, richly portrayed.

Cassandra Rose Clarke is the author of Star’s End, Our Lady of the Ice, and The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, as well as several Author novels for young adults. She holds an M.A. in creative writing The Beholden 554 pages; 5½" x 8½" Photo from The University of Texas at Austin, and attended Clarion Trade Paperback: PAPERBACK (optional) West in 2010. Her work has been nominated for the Philip K. $18.95/$24.95 Can. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, and ISBN: 978-1-64566-025-5 YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. No. 516025 202 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 The Midnight Bargain C. L. Polk rom the beloved –winning author of comes Fa sweeping, romantic new fantasy. Beatrice Clayborn practices magic in secret and dreams of pursuing it as her calling, as men do. She is terrified of being locked into a marital collar that will cut off her powers to protect her unborn children, but her debt-ridden family has staked everything on her Bargaining Season—when young people of means negotiate the best marriages—and only an advantageous match can save the Clayborns from ruin. When she finds a grimoire holding the key to becoming a Magus, and a rival sorceress swindles it right out of her hands, Beatrice summons a spirit to get it back. Her new ally, however, exacts a price: her first kiss . . . with her adversary’s • Bestselling novel: The Midnight brother, the handsome, compassionate, and rich Ianthe Lavan. Bargain has hit multiple bestseller lists as a hardcover and a paperback The more Beatrice is entangled with the Lavans, the harder her decision grows: special edition, as a finalist on If she becomes a Magus, she will devastate her family and lose the only man to the CBC's national Canada Reads ever see her for who she is; but if she marries—even for love—she will sacrifice program. her magic, identity, and dreams. How can she choose, and forever regret the path • Rising star in SFF: Polk’s critically not taken? acclaimed debut, Witchmark, an Indie Next Pick, won the World Fantasy Award and was nominated for the Nebula & Locus Awards—two major awards in genre.

• Topical issues: The Midnight Bargain is a smart, accessible secondary world fantasy with themes of feminism and social justice, centering a magical analogue of the issue of women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom.

C. L. Polk is the bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels The Midnight Bargain Author and Witchmark, which was also nominated for the Nebula, The Midnight Bargain 384 pages; 5½" x 8½" Photo Locus, Aurora, and Lambda Literary Awards. It was named one Trade Paperback: PAPERBACK (optional) of the best books of 2018 according to NPR, Publishers Weekly, $18.95/$24.95 Can. BuzzFeed, the Chicago Review, BookPage, and the B&N Sci-Fi ISBN: 978-1-64566-029-3 and Fantasy Blog. They live in Alberta, Canada. No. 516029 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 203 Fall of the Iron Gods Olivia Chadha he South Asian Province’s secret prison has been destroyed and its leaders Tare on trial. But the Red Hand is more endangered than ever. The Planetary Alliance Commission has branded them public enemy number one and is determined to root their remaining forces out of their Himalayan base, even as the pandemic rages on in the province. Ashiva, armed with a new bionic upgrade, leads a team back into the fray to track down a mysterious beacon that may well be a trap. Synch helps lock down and evacuate their mountain stronghold. Taru discovers a precious resource that everyone—especially the PAC—is desperate to control. And the PAC is all too willing to sacrifice an entire province to achieve their optimal results.

Ashiva, Synch, and Taru must save their homeland before its entire population is • Accessible story about current sacrificed for the greater planetary good. issues: This is a tight, exciting sci-fi series that addresses important topics like poverty and class stratification, global warming, and bioethics.

• #OwnVoices representation: Story in futuristic South Asia written by an Indian-American author, with unique perspective that’s in demand among English language readers hungry for representation, especially in school/ library markets.

• Exciting, versatile new voice: A promising writer of color who has published comic books and literary fiction, demonstrating great range and ability to cross genres.

• For ages 13 and up

Olivia Chadha began her writing career in Los Angeles writing comic book scripts for Fathom. She has a Ph.D in creative Author writing from Binghamton University and a master's in creative Fall of the Iron Gods 384 pages; 5½" x 8½" Photo writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research Jacketed Hardcover: HARDCOVER (optional) centers on exile, folklore and fairy tales, and the environment. $18.95/$24.95 Can. She is first-generation American of Punjabi Sikh and Latvian/ ISBN: 978-1-64566-027-9 German descent and lives in Colorado with her family. No. 516027 204 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu he haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in Tan unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award winning author, traces one girl’s migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found. • Critically acclaimed debut: On When they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a stable shore gives way to Fragile Waves debuted to blurbs from Ken Liu, Karen Joy Fowler, treacherous currents. Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own and other highly regarded literary ends, indifferent to the family’s fate. For Firuzeh, her fantasy worlds provide and SFF authors, and has seen some relief, but as her family and home splinter, she must surface from these enormous critical acclaim, including FOUR starred reviews (Publishers imaginings and find a new way. Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Foreward Magazine) and was named one of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Writers to Watch Spring 2021 across all genres.

• Timely subject matter: the plight of refugees and immigrants around the world is important, moving, and a frequent subject of news and speculation. Though Lily is not from the Afghani immigrant populations depicted in the book, she spent years working on the ground with them and I think has a unique insight into some of the difficulties faced by these populations.

• Author's reputation: in 2012, Lily was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, and Nebula award for “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” (a rare hat trick) and won the The Astounding Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award). Her short fiction is widely praised and this is a chance to publish her first standalone book. E. Lily Yu received the Artist Trust / LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in Author 2012. Her stories appear in venues from McSweeney's to Tor. On Fragile Waves 288 pages; 5½" x 8½" Photo com and in eleven best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been Trade Paperback: PAPERBACK (optional) finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World $16.95/$22.95 Can. Fantasy Awards. She has lived on both coasts and holds degrees ISBN: 978-1-64566-032-3 from Princeton and Cornell. This is her first novel. No. 516032 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 205 Kalyna the Soothsayer Elijah Kinch Spector or generations, every child of Kalyna’s family has had the Gift: the ability Fto predict the future. For decades, they’ve traveled the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia—one country with four monarchs—selling their services as soothsayers. Kalyna, born without the Gift, has supported her father—who is losing sight of under the weight of his confused visions of the future—and her cruel grandmother with her wits, using informants and trickery to fake prophecies and scrounge a living. Their poverty turns to danger when, on the strength of her reputation, Kalyna is “hired” (kidnapped) by Lenz, the royal spymaster of Rotfelsen. Lenz holds Kalyna’s family hostage to compel her to use the Gift to uncover threats against • Strong female lead: Kalyna uses the King. But Rotfelsenisch politics are devious; the King’s enemies abound; and her wits to protect her family and Kalyna’s skills for investigation and deception are tested to the limit. Worse, the navigate a treacherous royal court. Similar books, such as Spinning conspiracy she uncovers threatens not only the King of Rotfelsen but all four Silver and The Ten Thousand Doors monarchs of the Tetrarchia, at their annual governing Council—which falls at of January, have been successful. precisely the time that Kalyna’s father has prophesied the catastrophic downfall of the Tetrarchia. • Modern twist on heist/deception story: Successful recent fantasy Kalyna is determined to protect her family and newfound friends—and to save novels—including Gideon the Ninth, the Tetrarchia too. But as she is drawn deeper into palace intrigue, she’s not sure Queen of the Conquered, and if her manipulations are preventing the Tetrarchia’s destruction—or if her lies The Traitor Baru Cormorant—have reimagined this popular plotline on will bring it about. fresh backdrops of contemporary political awareness.

• Timely political commentary: The story of factions propping up and undermining a false king for their own petty interests, despite the nation’s imminent collapse, is eminently timely. Rather than heavy- handed metaphor, this is a clever, entertaining adventure that happens to resemble recent circumstances.

Elijah Kinch Spector lives in Brooklyn. Kalyna the Soothsayer is his first novel. Author Kalyna the Soothsayer Photo 400 pages; 5½" x 8½" Jacketed Hardcover: HARDCOVER (optional) $27.95/$36.95 Can. ISBN: 978-1-64566-038-5 No. 516038 10 EREWHON CATALOG FALL 2021 | TITLE INDEX

B Beholden, The...... 201

D Day Boy...... 199

F Fall of the Iron Gods...... 203

K Kalyna the Soothsayer...... 205

L Lonely Castle in the Mirror...... 198

M Midnight Bargain, The...... 202

O On Fragile Waves...... 204

R Rise of the Red Hand...... 200