"The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."
~ from Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
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Half a King
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Joe Abercrombie
Born with a deformed hand, Prince Yarvi, second son of the King of Gettland, becomes heir to the Black Chair after his father and elder brother are murdered. Unfortunately, Yarvi's conniving uncle has designs on the throne and stages a coup that sends Yarvi into exile and subsequent enslavement. Yarvi vows to avenge his family members' deaths, dethrone his uncle, and reclaim his rightful inheritance -- and that's just the opening installment of author Joe Abercrombie's Half a King trilogy. For other dramatic, intricately plotted tales of unlikely heirs to hotly contested thrones, check out Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor or N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
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The lost
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Sarah Beth Durst
Finding herself in a macabre alternate reality during a car ride that was supposed to give her a few hours' respite, Lauren is trapped in an ever-shifting world where lost objects come and go, locals turn feral and the only people who do not want to kill her are a handsome wild man and a knife-wielding 6-year-old girl.
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The Oversight
by
Charlie Fletcher
The five remaining members of the Oversight, a dwindling organization that polices the boundary between the mundane and the magic, struggle to keep up as brutal murders break out across London and their enemies draw closer.
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The Queen of the Tearling
by
Erika Johansen
On her 19th birthday, Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, the rightful Queen of the Tearling, returns from exile to claim her throne. Bright and resourceful, but unpracticed in diplomacy, she quickly makes powerful enemies -- foremost of which is the Red Queen, an immortal sorceress who rules the neighboring realm of Mortmesne. Can Kelsea become the monarch that the Tearling requires? Set in a far-future society that has reverted to medieval-style feudalism in the wake of a cataclysm known as The Crossing,
The Queen of the Tearling
offers plenty of drama, political intrigue, and world-building.
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Property of a lady faire : a secret histories novel
by
Simon R. Green
After surviving another attempt on her life, Eddie Drood must save the future of her family of secret-keepers by stealing an ancient object from the Lady Faire, in the eighth novel of the series following Casino Infernale.
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The Given
by
Vicki Pettersson
Once a private eye, Fallen Angel Griffin "Grif" Shaw solves cases in the afterlife, with the help of his partner and girlfriend, rockabilly reporter Kit Craig. However, Grif's ongoing investigation into his own murder (and that of his wife, Evie) has revealed that Evie may have survived the attempt on her life. Despite their feelings for each other, Grif and Kit agree to put their relationship on hold in order to find out what really happened that fateful night more than 50 years ago.
The Given
is the 3rd book in the Celestial Blues series, after
The Taken
and
The Lost.
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Naked city : tales of urban fantasy
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Ellen Datlow
An anthology of gritty supernatural tales of magic and mischief by leading genre authors includes an original Harry Dresden by Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs' story about a vampire who must save the Fae who lifted his curse and Holly Black's short piece about a rock star who discovers a young woman's unnatural appetites.
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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors)
Excerpts from the adolescent Queen Victoria's secret diary is just one of the delights of this enchanting anthology, which includes short stories by notable fantasy writers such as Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer, Elizabeth Bear, Gregory Maguire, Genevieve Valentine, Catherynne M. Valente, and Jane Yolen. Each tale, set in a magical, often steam-powered version of Victorian England, examines 19th-century society from a different perspective, whether it's that of the magic-wielding ruling classes, the entreprenurial inventors who devise new technologies, or the servants that keep this brave new-old world running.
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Dark bites : A Short Story Collection
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
The complete collection of short stories written for the Dark-Hunter series, includes “Phantom Lover” and “Love Bytes” as well as a new, previously unreleased title and tales that have only been published exclusively on the author's website.
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Shadows of the new sun : stories in honor of Gene Wolfe
by
J. E. Mooney
A collection of stories in tribute to the award-winning author of such novels as Solider of the Mist celebrates his legacy and lasting influence with original contributions by such writers as Neil Gaiman, David Brin and David Drake and is complemented by two new short stories by Gene Wolfe himself.
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Wonders of the Invisible World
by
Patricia A. McKillip
16 enchanting tales by acclaimed author Patricia A. McKillip. From her macabre twist on the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" to her poignant exploration of Celtic legends in "The Kelpie," McKillip demonstrates her mastery of folklore traditions, while simultaneously surprising readers with inventive scenarios, such as that of the title story, which involves angels, time travel, and Cotton Mather. Fantasy readers won't want to miss this collection by a modern master of the genre, whom fellow author Charles de Lint once praised as "one of the few writers I've read who hasn't written a bad book."
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A Blink of the Screen : Collected Shorter Fiction
by
Terry Pratchett
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A "Blink of the Screen" charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his school days through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, "The Carpet People"; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.
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