A man was loitering outside the bookshop.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Shanna Tan, Hwang Bo-reum
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Anything at the mercy of such a divine female must, to them, necessarily be a man.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
The fat-sailed high-prowed Taryam’ajak of Antai bit salt swells, singing of rigging and canvas strained by pressure, bound for home across the wide blue desert of the Lan’ai.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
Tak! quoted Steelflower by Lilith Saintcrow (The Steelflower Chronicles, #1)
Thief, assassin, sellsword—Kaia Steelflower is famous. Well, mostly famous, and mostly for the wrong reasons. …
I woke from a fuzzy trance with my mead-filled head ringing and four Hain Guards seeking to separate said head from my shoulders.
— Steelflower by Lilith Saintcrow (The Steelflower Chronicles, #1)
Tak! quoted Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove …
Nobody ever believed murders “just happened” around Mallory Viridian.
— Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
Tak! quoted David Mogo by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Nigerian God-Punk - a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos.
Since the Orisha …
This is going to be a bad job.
Tak! quoted The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
The walls of the estate emerged from the morning fog before me, long and dark and rounded like the skin of some beached sea creature.
— The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Tak! quoted The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of …
In the early sun-swept hours of the morning, when purples and pinks smeared across the sky like blood, Firuz-e Jafari looked for a job.
Tak! quoted The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
Humans often say that they are made of stardust.
Tak! quoted Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no …
Wolfe Studios released a tarot deck’s worth of stories about me over the years.
— Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Tak! quoted The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is …
Every morning just after dawn, Lin Chong taught a fight class for women.
Tak! quoted Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #2)
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a …
It was much, much worse at night.
— Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #2)
Tak! quoted City of Pearl by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #1)
Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the …
The bot was immune to the snow, and so was Aras.
— City of Pearl by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #1)
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton’s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the boy was the only one in the house left alive.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Tak! quoted At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)
Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, …
The bells of the Palace of Stars were barely audible outside its walls.
— At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)
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