Tak! quoted Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
So. I’m not in an ideal situation right now.
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Tak! quoted Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba (Stormbringer Saga, #1)
In this an enthralling Filipino-inspired epic fantasy, a nun concealing a goddess-given gift is unwillingly …
The sea breezes keened of death in Lunurin’s ears, a cacophony of voices urging her to act.
— Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba (Stormbringer Saga, #1)
Tak! quoted Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The world roared.
— Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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.
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 Katherine Addison
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
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA …
We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other.
— Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Tak! quoted Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky
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 Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
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 Countess by Suzan Palumbo
A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …
Acting Captain Virika Sameroo abandoned her seat and stood ramrod stiff behind the Oestra’s navigator after it jolted through the Invictan region skip gate.
— Countess by Suzan Palumbo