This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work—until one enraged...
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war, and dragons.
Rogue. Joker....
In this tale from Locke’s teenage years, our nervous, hormonal, romantically-confused hero spends a few months working as a bar-back in one of Camorr’s most brutal Right People taverns. This is one of Father Chains’ endless series of training...
“A wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.”—Terry Brooks
Two thousand years ago, the Born Queen defeated the Skasloi lords, freeing humans from the bitter yoke of slavery. But now monstrous creatures...
— Sf Site’s 2003 Book of the Year
— World Fantasy Award winner, best novella
— World Fantasy Award f inalist, best collection
— Voss Bender Memorial Award
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the...
Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never...