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"He had taken a new name for most of the usual reasons, and for a few unusual ones as well, not the least of which was the fact that names were important to him." ~ from Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind
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Dragon hunters
by Marc Turner
Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass from the Southern Wastes into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire called the Storm Isles. Alas, this year someone forgot to tell the dragon which is the hunter and which the hunted. Emira Imerle Polivar is coming to the end of her tenure as leader of the Storm Lords. She has no intention of standing down graciously. She instructs an order of priests called the Chameleons to infiltrate a citadel housing the mechanism that controls the Dragon Gate to prevent the gate from being lowered after it has been raised on Dragon Day. Imerle hopes the dozens of dragons thus unleashed on the Sabian Sea will eliminate her rivals while she launches an attack on the Storm Lord capital, Olaire, to secure her grip on power. But Imerle is not the only one intent on destroying the Storm Lord dynasty. As the Storm Lords assemble in Olaire in answer to a mysterious summons, they become the targets of assassins working for an unknown enemy. When Imerle initiates her coup, that enemy makes use of the chaos created to show its hand.
Chronicles of the Exile #2
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The Dinosaur Knights
by Victor Milan
Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews.
Karyl Bogomirsky is one such knight who has chosen to rally those who seek a way from the path of war and madness. The fact that the Empire has announced a religious crusade against this peaceful kingdom, the people who just wish to live in peace anathema, and they all are to be converted or destroyed doesn't help him one bit.
Things really turn to mud when the dreaded Grey Angels, fabled ancient weapons of the Gods who created Paradise in the first place come on the scene after almost a millennia. Everyone thought that they were fables used to scare children. They are very much real.
And they have come to rid the world of sin...including all the humans who manifest those vices.
Dinosaur Lords #2
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The devourers
by Indra Das
On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the man s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the stranger s behest, to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins.
From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok s interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent.
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Imprudence
by Gail Carriger
Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend Primrose keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types.
Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and her obstreperous mother is both. Worst of all, Rue's beginning to suspect what they really are... is frightened.
Custard Protocol #2
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A natural history of hell : stories
by Jeffrey Ford
Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and abandoned children. In July of 1915, in Hardin County, Ohio, a boy sees ghosts. Explore contemporary natural history in a baker's dozen of exhilarating visions.
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Wasteland king
by Lilith Saintcrow
The plague has broken loose, the Wild Hunt is riding, and the balance of power in the sidhe realms is still shifting. The Unseelie King has a grudge against Jeremiah Gallow, but it will have to wait. For he needs Gallow's services for a very delicate mission -- and the prize for success is survival itself.
In order to save both Robin Ragged and himself, Gallow will have to do the unspeakable...
Gallow and Ragged #3
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Urban Allies : Ten Brand-new Collaborative Stories
by Joseph Nassise
In this impressive anthology, twenty of today’s hottest urban fantasy writers including Charlaine Harris, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan Mcguire, and C. E. Murphy pair together to write ten original stories featuring their favorite series characters.
Worlds collide when two different urban fantasy series meet in each of the ten electrifying stories in this collaborative project, featuring beloved characters such as Peter Octavian and Dahlia Lynley-Chivers, Joanne Walker and Harper Blaine, Joe Ledger and Special Agent Franks, Sabina Kane and Ava. Urban Allies melds the talents of some of the most high-profile authors in the genre, today many of whom are working together for the first time, to give readers a chance to see their favorite characters in an imaginative and fresh way.
Edited by acclaimed bestselling author Joseph Nassise, who is also a contributor, this outstanding collection showcases the brilliant storytelling talents of some of the most acclaimed urban fantasy writers working today among them seven New York Times bestselling authors and one USA Today bestselling author.
Contributors Include: Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Carrie Vaughn, Diana Rowland, Jonathan Maberry, Larry Correia, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan Mcguire, Joseph Nassise, Sam Witt, Steven Savile, Craig Schaefer, David Wellington, Weston Ochse, Stephen Blackmoore, Jeff Somers, C. E. Murphy, Kat Richardson, Jaye Wells, and Caitlin Kittredge.
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Flameout
by Keri Arthur
Emberly and her red hot partner, Jackson, have hit an impasse in their battle against the crazed humans infected by a plague-like virus derived from vampire blood. Their quest to unearth the leader of the group leads them into an ambush and leaves Emberly at odds with her former lover, Sam, who s pressuring her to join his Paranormal Investigations Team.
To make matters worse, three local witches have been kidnapped and if their spells fall into the wrong hands, Emberly s powers could end up smothered. With time ticking until the virus consumes the world, Emberly and Jackson must race to save the witches, find a cure, and smoke out their nemesis or go down in a blaze of glory...
Souls of Fire Novel #3
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The Annihilation Score : A Laundry Files Novel
by Charles Stross
Dominique O’Brien her friends call her Mo lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they are boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthine secret circles of Her Majesty’s Government, they’re operatives working for the nation’s occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.
Unfortunately, one of those supernatural threats has come between Mo and Bob. An antique violin, an Erich Zahn original, made of white human bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues and her husband. And despite Mo’s proficiency as a world-class violinist, it cannot be controlled.
Laundry Files Novel #6
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The nightmare stacks
by Charles Stross
After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by The Laundry, Britain’s secret counter-occult agency that s humanity’s first line of defense against the forces of darkness. Dependent on his new employers for his continued existence as Alex has no stomach for predatory bloodsucking he has little choice but to accept his new role as an operative-in-training.
Dispatched to Leeds, Alex’s first assignment is to help assess the costs of renovating a 1950s Cold War bunker into The Laundry’s new headquarters. Unfortunately, Leeds is Alex’s hometown, and the thought of breaking the news to his parents that he’s left banking for civil service, while hiding his undead condition, is causing more anxiety than learning how to live as a vampire secret agent preparing to confront multiple apocalypses.
Alex’s only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a drama student appearing in the local Goth Festival who is inexplicably attracted to him despite his awkward personality and massive amounts of sunblock.
But Cassie has secrets of her own secrets that make Alex’s night life behaviors seem positively normal...
Laundry Files Novel #7
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Autumn Princess, Dragon Child
by Lian Hearn
Shikanoko has been humbled by failure, and his once clear destiny has become clouded . . .
The Autumn Princess and the boy who is the true emperor are fugitives in the forest, alone and unprotected . . .
In the mountain sorcerer’s hut a new generation of the Old People is born the Spider Tribe, not quite human, not quite demons, and quickly coming of age . . .
One clan is in retreat, the other holds the capital, and natural disasters follow one upon another. Will Heaven ever be placated?
Tale of Shikanoko #2
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| The Mirror Empire by Kameron HurleyEpic Fantasy. When raiders overrun her village and slaughter her blood-witch mother, young Lilia escapes through a rift into another dimension, a mirror universe in which the stars directly control one's destiny. Now a "drudge," a temple scullery maid with neither kin nor prospects, Lilia soon finds herself (or, more accurately, her rare magical abilities) in demand when the dark star Oma, absent for 2,000 years, returns. Boasting a large cast of characters and extensive world-building, The Mirror Empire kicks off the Worldbreaker Saga, which continues with Empire Ascendant. |
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| The Falcon Throne by Karen MillerEpic Fantasy. Although the duchies of Clemen and Harcia have been embroiled in a power struggle for years, it's unclear that either realm will have anything left to offer by the time the conflict ends -- if, indeed, it ever ends. In Clemen, Duke Harold has been deposed by Roric, while Harcia's heir, Balfre, hopes to wrest control of Clemen by pitting the inhabitants of the borderlands against Roric. However, unbeknownst to both parties, Harold's son plots his own return to power. With bloody battles, political intrigue, and supernatural overtones, this opening volume of the Tarnished Throne series should interest fans of Joe Abercrombie's Half a King. |
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| The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussEpic Fantasy. As proprietor of the remote Waystone Inn, Kote leads a quiet life until the itinerant Chronicler recognizes him as the legendary hero Kvothe and urges him to recount his life story, beginning with his birth as one of the Edema Ruh, a nomadic troop of performers. After being orphaned by demons at a young age, Kvothe becomes in turn a wizard, a bard, a thief, an assassin, and a hero who seeks to avenge his family's murder. The Name of the Wind is the 1st installment of the Kingkiller Chronicles, which continues with The Wise Man's Fear; there's also a companion novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, which focuses on popular supporting character Auri. |
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| The Black Prism by Brent WeeksEpic Fantasy. In the Seven Satrapies, colored light (luxin) is magic and magic is power. Fifteen years ago, twin mages Gavin and Daven Guile fought against each other in the Great Prism Wars before Gavin triumphed over his brother to become the High Lord Prism and the leader of the Chromerium, which governs the realm's use of magic. Now Gavin learns that he has a son, or so he's told. Gavin is certain that teenage orphan Kip is not his child; Kip doesn't know what to believe, but it hardly matters: both of their lives (not to mention the fate of the Seven Satrapies) are about to change forever in this opening volume of the Lightbringer Saga. Fascinated by this novel's political intrigue and complex chromatic magic system? Try Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. |
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