Refusing the queen’s order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished …
Shea Ashcroft stepped from a carriage into the low-lit alley as a mongrel lifted its door knocker of a head from a garbage pile.
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Tak! quoted In Universes by Emet North
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel …
Here is what I remember most about the months I spent searching for dark matter: there are some things in the universe you can only find by looking away from them.
— In Universes by Emet North
Tak! quoted A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant …
I’d thought the jungles of the eastern Empire to be oppressively hot, but as I sat in the prow of the little canal boat and felt the sweat slip down my brow, I decided the north was, without question, far worse.
— A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
Tak! quoted Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, the sole protector of a collection …
Abe Kalotay died in his front yard in late February, beneath a sky so pale it seemed infected.
Tak! quoted The Tomb of Dragons by Sarah Monette
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of …
Why do you feed the cats, othala?
Tak! quoted Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis , returns with Dual Memory, a standalone …
I want to feel everything, the light, the noise, the dark, even the cold and fear.
— Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Tak! quoted Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other.
— Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Tak! quoted Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий
Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that …
The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.
— Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий, Борис Натанович Стругацкий, Arkady Strugatsky, and 1 other
Tak! quoted Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.
— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
Tak! quoted The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui
Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone …
By all accounts, I should be scared.
Tak! quoted Ghost Station by null
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space …
The protesters outside are getting louder.
— Ghost Station by null
Tak! quoted Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
He didn't like beating people.
Tak! quoted Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale …
I am not on this beach.
— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
Tak! quoted After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a …
It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.
— After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)
Tak! quoted Planetfall by Emma Newman
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed in …
Every time I come down here I think about my mother.
— Planetfall by Emma Newman