By: Margaret Killjoy
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
In celebration of Pride, Tor.com Publishing presents four critically acclaimed novellas featuring L…
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By: Martha Wells
Format: 144 pages, ebook
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more
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"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
By: Victor LaValle
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Susan Palwick
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Lemabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty. But it is also a land of swift and … read more
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By: Vernor Vinge
Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more
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"So even in hell, there are clowns."-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
"So high, so low, so many things to know."-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Neil Gaiman , Cody Goodfellow , Gemma Files , Ramsey Campbell , Mark Samuels , S.T. Joshi , Rhys Hughes , Thomas Ligotti , Lois H. Gresh , T.E.D. Klein , C. Hall Thompson , Patrick McGrath , Jonathan Thomas , Joseph S. Pulver Sr. , Donald Tyson , Michael Shea , W.H. Pugmire , None , Jason V. Brock , Robert Barbour Johnson , None , James Wade , Mearle Prout
Format: None pages,
H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most… read more
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By: James S.A. Corey , Erik Davies
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey... Before his trip to the stars, before the… read more
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By: Brian Staveley
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The circle is closing. The stakes are high. And old truths will live again... The Emperor has be… read more
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"Easier to recall a loosed falcon than a spoken word."-Brian Staveley, The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)
"Any fool can see what's there. You need to see what is not there."-Brian Staveley, The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)
"It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more."-Brian Staveley, The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)
"The idea ... seemed about as likely as a shark strolling out of the sea on its fins to ask for a bowl of soup."-Brian Staveley, The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)
By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Quests Children have alway… read more
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By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more
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"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
By: J.Y. Yang
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children.… read more
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By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more
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"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more
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By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've a… read more
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"Names have power. Names define things"-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
"I'm not your door, but I might be my own."-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
"Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate"-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
"I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own."-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
By: T. Kingfisher
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
2021 LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards char… read more
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"After a minute, I said, “I never wanted to be a hero."-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
"She shouldn't have had to be a hero.' 'No,' said the Duchess, 'no, no one should."-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
"I expect this won’t be your last set of medals, my dear. Heroism is an unfortunate habit."-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
"...but hey, once a baker, always a baker. If I was going to get thrown in the dungeon, at least I was going to leave a trail of quality pastries behind me."-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
By: Martha Wells
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Travis Baldree
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more
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"See you in the story past the story."-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
By: Ann Leckie
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more
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"I am not a potato."-Ann Leckie, Translation State
"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"-Ann Leckie, Translation State
By: Martha Wells
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more
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"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
"Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy."-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
"I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other."-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 208 pages, ebook
A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more
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"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
By: Martha Wells
Format: 19 pages, ebook
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more
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"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
By: Emily Tesh
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more
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"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
By: Travis Baldree
Format: 33 pages, ebook
Short story prequel to Legends & Lattes. It is available in the book Legends & Lattes, second editi… read more
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By: Martha Wells
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more
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"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
By: Martha Wells
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more
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"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
By: T. Kingfisher
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his… read more
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"Your god. Why a rat?"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"Zale steepled their fingers. “Do you want to talk about that?"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"The miller back home was like that,' she said. 'He had a little bit of power and he lorded it over everyone. Although there's less damage you can do with a mill than with a religious order."-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
By: Martha Wells
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more
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"Ugh, emotions."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
"So, you have a relationship with this transport."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
By: C.L. Polk
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more
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By: Seanan McGuire
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more
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"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
By: Cory Doctorow
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
An epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. Hubert Vernon Rudolph Cla… read more
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"YA doesn't get librarians fired!"-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
"Death is cured! USA! USA! USA!" “This is Canada."-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
"We can live like it's the first days of a better world, not the like it's the first pages of an Ayn Rand novel. Have this place, but you can't have us. We withdraw our company."-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
"She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart."-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
By: China Miéville
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more
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"Liberation was fucked up."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
By: Margaret Killjoy
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
In celebration of Pride, Tor.com Publishing presents four critically acclaimed novellas featuring L… read more
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