Judy Wallach-Stevens is woken one night to a warning about pollutants in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. With her wife and newborn in tow, she heads out to see what’s up—and ends up making first contact with a group of friendly aliens.
In the middle of the last century, a research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley experienced multiple near-catastrophic accidents, leaking radiation and other toxins into the surrounding communities.
“Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!”
When the murderer of Taryn Cornick’s sister is himself murdered just days after his release from prison, detective Jacob Berger is certain she has something to do with it.
In the seconds after Fetter is born, his mother kills his shadow.
In the fourth and as yet final book of the Steerswoman series, Rowan and Bel return to Donner, where they last barely escaped an attack of dragons.
Rowan arrives in Alemath, at the steerswomen’s Annex, searching for information.
The second book in the extraordinary Steerswoman Series follows Rowan and her companion, Bel, as they venture into the outskirts: a dangerous, inhospitable land marked by few sources of food and panoply of monsters intent on killing the humans who dare to live there.
Ask a steerswoman any question, and she will answer it truthfully and to the fullest of her knowledge. In return, you must answer any question she puts to you.
In 1888, Shannon, a private detective from Chicago, travels to Texas to investigate a missing person: one Nathan Silverberg, who had ventured south with a clutch of donated funds intended to buy land to found a colony for Jewish refugees.
Hild, now Lady of Elmet and wife to Cian Boldcloak, remains King Edwin’s seer—but what she can see is terrible.
A girl—who was once called Zed, and once called Lamentations, and now perhaps has no name—flees the famine and violence of a starving Dutch colony in the Americas and enters the wilderness.
Dr. Ha Nguyen has been summoned to the remote archipelago of Con Dao, where there are rumors of an octopus that walks upright on land and may have taken to murdering local poachers.
When her neighbor Bigfoot turns up dead, Janina Duszejko immediately has a theory as to what happened—if only people will listen to her.
In what reads like a plausible present (rather than the near future), the enforcer for the Southern Nevada Water Authority cuts a bloody fight over the little water that remains in the Colorado river.
In the nineteenth century, the British empire has achieved exceptional power through its dominance of silver-working: an art that locates and exploits the magic in the gaps of meaning between languages.
A group of people “preadapted” to danger and stress have been recruited to run a power station at the bottom of the Pacific.
Inspector Tyador Borlú serves on the Extreme Crime Squad in the city of Besźel.
In the third book of the Locked Tomb series, Nona lives with her friends Camilla, Palamedes, and Pyrrha in a cramped apartment in a tall building in a city menaced by a great hulking creature in the sky.
A world-ending weapon that makes its targets “go away” has, perhaps predictably, gone awry and left large parts of the world uninhabitable.