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.
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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
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)
Emma Newman: After atlas (2016)
"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 …
Every time I come down here I think about my mother.
— Planetfall by Emma Newman
Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …
I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.
— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Tak! quoted Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater, #1)
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the …
Light. The light of that murdered sun still burns me.
— Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater, #1)
Tak! quoted Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
They call me Mr. Scales because I’m a snake.
— Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Tak! quoted The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used …
When the multiverse was confirmed, the spiritual and scientific communities both counted it as evidence of their validity.
Tak! quoted Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, …
Loret had spent the voyage braced for pirates.
Tak! quoted House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
It is a vision of hell.
— House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
Tak! quoted Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
An engorged, yellow moon painted the sky a sickly amber hue, illuminating a solitary figure.
Tak! quoted Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
In the course of a single life, a man can be many things: a beloved child in a brightly embroidered gown, a street tough with a band of knifemen walking at his side, lover to a beautiful girl, husband to an honest woman, father to a child, grain sweeper in a brewery, widower, musician, and mendicant coughing his lungs up outside the city walls.
I checked twice during the prologue that I hadn't opened the wrong book by accident.
I checked twice during the prologue that I hadn't opened the wrong book by accident.