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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future.
It's been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of what do people need?" is answered.
But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.
They're going to need to ask it a lot.
Tor Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they On Sale: Jul 13/21 want, does having more matter? 5 x 8 • 160 pages " 9781250236210 • $28.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure This was an optimistic vision of a lush, beautiful world that came back from Series: Monk & Robot the brink of disaster. Exploring it with the two main characters was a fun and fascinating experience." - Martha Wells Notes "I'm the world's biggest fan of odd couple buddy road trips in science fiction, and this odd couple buddy road trip is a delight: funny, thoughtful, touching, Promotion sweet, and one of the most humane books I've read in a long time.
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Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others.
Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she's now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.
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A Master of Djinn a novel by P. Djeli Clark
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djeli Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer.
So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world fifty years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the Tor streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. On Sale: May 11/21 5.38 x 8.25 • 400 pages Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma 9781250267689 • $37.99 • CL - With dust jacket must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city - or Fiction / Fantasy / Historical face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems. . .
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The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Like Jordan's own paper creations, The Chosen and the Beautiful captivates with its artistry and its power." - Helene Wecker
" Gatsby the way it should have been written - dark, dazzling, fantastical." - R. F. Kuang
Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society - she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.
But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the Tor cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. On Sale: Jun 1/21 5.38 x 8.25 • 272 pages Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of 9781250784780 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and Fiction / Fantasy / Historical glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice. " Notes Nghi Vo's stellar transformation of The Great Gatsby recasts the 'careless' Jordan Baker as a woman of depth and sharpness, a socialite forced (...) Promotion -Outreach aimed at readers of the Great Gatsby, Author Bio literary SFF, queer narratives, and the Asian diaspora including digital assets, targeted ads & group Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois, and she retains a healthy respect for and promotions with other books featuring historical fiction love of corn mazes, scarecrows, and fifty-year floods. These days, she lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, which is less a lake than an inland sea that -National print and online publicity campaign to genre she is sure is just biding its time. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange and literary outlets, featuring review coverage, Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, excerpts, interviews, and special mailings to PodCastle, and Fireside, and her short story Neither Witch nor Fairy" made influencers, book clubs, & more the 2014 Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award Honor List. Nghi mostly writes about food, death, and family, but sometimes detours into blood, love, and -Author support for Nghi Vo, with sweepstakes & rhetoric. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right promotions for fans of her critically acclaimed Singing to change your mind. Hills Cycle novellas, bookseller & librarian buzz presentations, galley mailings, IndieNext campaign, & swag to drive consumer preorders
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Star Eater by Kerstin Hall
From Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall
A layered and incisive examination of power." - Rory Power,New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls
"Stunning, bloody, and everything I adore in fantasy." - Emily Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints
"Both haunted and haunting." - A. K. Larkwood, author of The Unspoken Name
She swallowed a star, and the Sisterhood called her the Eater.
Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach the gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Order's magical bloodline horrifies her, but the Sisters Tor of Aytrium have sworn to pay a price for the safety of their nation. On Sale: Jun 22/21 5.38 x 8.25 • 416 pages Elfreda wants out, whatever the cost. 9781250625311 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket Fic / Fantasy / Action & Adventure So when a shadowy cabal approaches her with an offer of escape, she leaps at the opportunity. As their spy, she gains access to the highest reaches of the Notes Order, and enters a glittering world of opulent parties, subtle deceptions, and unexpected (...)
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The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
The Candide of our #@$\*%?! age." - Ken Liu, award-winning author
Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world.
The future is blue. Endless blue. . . except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown.
Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she's the only one who knows it. She's the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it's full of hope, that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time. Tor On Sale: Jul 20/21 But Earth is a terrible mess, hope is a fragile thing, and a lot of people are 5 x 8 • 160 pages very angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend, a terrible secret, and 9781250301130 • $28.50 • CL - With dust jacket more to her world than she ever expected. Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post- " Apocalyptic A gorgeous, funny, melancholy, splendid romp through a post-apocalyptic Notes wonderland in which hope and despair are indistinguishable, and the human spirit burns with the (...)
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Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Prix Imaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Romantic Times' Critics Choice and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
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Never Say You Can't Survive How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
From the internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed writer Charlie Jane Anders comes Never Say You Can't Survive, a nonfiction manual about writing and life.
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Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy, along with the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes . Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky . Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first Tor week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are On Sale: Aug 17/21 Correct. 5.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages 9781250800015 • $36.50 • CL - With dust jacket
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Escape from Puroland by Charles Stross
Regular reader of the Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks, and his subsequent return from Tokyo at the start of The Delirium Brief .
Escape from Puroland explains what he was doing there.
Bob's been assigned to work with the Miyamoto Group, checking the wards that lock down Japan's warded sites - a task previously handled by his predecessor Dr. Angleton, the Eater of Souls. This mostly involves policing yokai: traditional magical beings, increasingly grown more annoying and energetic.
But then Bob's simple trip turns into a deadly confrontation with the ultimate yokai. It's massively powerful. It's pink. And it says Hello.
Tor Author Bio On Sale: Jul 13/21 5 x 8 • 128 pages CHARLES STROSS is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of 9781250805706 • $26.99 • CL - With dust jacket Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary including for the Laundry Files tale Equoid." His work has been translated into Series: Laundry Files over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief ), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Notes Children .
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The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory
Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fiction premise of the famous novel by H. G. Wells with the panache of a classic murder mystery and the spectacle of a beloved boy band.
It's 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world's hottest boy band, and definitely the world's only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the boyz" become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot ("the cute one"), Matt the megabat ("the funny one"), Tim the Pangolin ("the shy one"), Devin the bonobo ("the romantic one"), or Tusk the elephant ("the smart one")?
Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ' journey first began - a place they used to call home.
Tor Author Bio On Sale: May 18/21 5 x 8 • 176 pages Daryl Gregory was the 2009 winner of IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy 9781250782106 • $20.99 • pb Award for his first novel Pandemonium . His second novel, The Devil's Fiction / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering Alphabet, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and was named one of the best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly . His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction Notes Magazine, and The Year's Best SF.He has also written comics for BOOM! Studios and IDW. Promotion - Consumer and trade-facing advertising, sweepstakes and promotions for readers of fast-paced sci-fi adventures and dark humor in SFF, as well as existing fans of Daryl Gregory's technothriller and New Weird works - Publicity aimed at genre and alternative outlets with an award focused buzz campaign and multi-channel marketing including early mailings to booksellers, institutions, influencers - Extensive coverage on Tor.com, which averages 1 million unique visitors and 3 million pageviews per month, with more than half a million newsletter subscribers and over 240K social media followers
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Hard Reboot by Django Wexler
Django Wexler's Hard Reboot features giant mech arena battles and intergalactic diplomacy. When did academia get to be so complicated?
Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle- droid prizefights.
Is it time to get back to the books, yet?
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Warning: You'll probably be hooked on Wexler's insane 'flintlock fantasy' worldbuilding." - Charlie Jane Anders on "The Penitent Damned" Tor On Sale: May 25/21 "A standout. . . . There's no time like the present to lose oneself in the military 5 x 8 • 144 pages and political struggles of the Vordanai Empire." - Fonda Lee on The Shadow 9781250790262 • $18.99 • pb Campaigns series Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure " Ship of Smoke and Steel is a brisk, gritty adventure starring a heroine with Notes genuine agency and power, despite the overwhelming odds stacked against her. The world is sharp and unforgiving, the mysteries are deep, the action is harrowing and triumphant." - Scott Lynch (...) Promotion Author Bio
Django Wexler is a self-proclaimed computer/fantasy/sci-fi geek. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with degrees in creative writing and computer science, worked in artificial intelligence research and as a programmer/writer for Microsoft, and is now a full-time fantasy writer. Django is the author of The Shadow Campaigns, an epic fantasy series for adults published by Roc (an imprint of Penguin), and The Forbidden Library, a classic fantasy series for young readers publishedby Kathy Dawson Books (an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group)
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Inside Man by K. J. Parker
K. J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper’s Demon with a wry, sardonic novella that flips the eternal, rule-governed battle between men and demons on its head.
An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Hell and now a committed underachiever, has spent the last forever of an eternity leading a perfectly tedious existence distracting monks from their liturgical devotions. It’s interminable, but he prefers it that way, now that he’s been officially designated by Downstairs as “fragile.” No, he won’t elaborate.
All that changes when he finds himself ensnared, along with a sadistic exorcist, in a labyrinthine plot to subvert the very nature of Good and Evil. In such a circumstance, sympathy for the Devil is practically inevitable.
Author Bio Tor On Sale: Jun 15/21 Having worked in journalism, numismatics and the law,K. J. Parker now 5 x 8 • 144 pages writes for a precarious living. He is the author of Devices and Desires, Evil for 9781250786142 • $18.99 • pb Evil, The Devil You Know, and other novels, and has won the World Fantasy Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy Award twice. Parker also writes under the name Tom Holt.
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Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell
In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fi adventure Light Chaser, a love powerful enough to transcend death can bring down an entire empire.
Amahle is a Light Chaser - one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories.
But when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages she hears the same voice talking directly to her from different times and on different worlds. She comes to understand that something terrible is happening, and only she is in a position to do anything about it.
And it will cost everything to put it right.
Praise for the authors: Tor On Sale: Aug 24/21 [Gareth L.] Powell's writing is fast-paced and fun and full of adventure. He's on 5 x 8 • 144 pages my must-read list." - Ann Leckie 9781250769824 • $18.99 • pb Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure "[Peter F.] Hamilton handles massive ideas with enviable ease." - Guardian
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In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
S. Qiouyi Lu’s debut is stunning, unique collection of narratives arranged as a mosaic novella in the style of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
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S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, and Strange Horizons, and their translations have appeared in Clarkesworld . They edit the flash fiction and poetry magazine Arsenika
Tor On Sale: Aug 31/21 5 x 8 • 192 pages 9781250792983 • $20.99 • pb Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk
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