From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang's The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao's The Surviving Sky.Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and,...

A thought-provoking work by a singular voice, this short, sharp essay invites us to critically reconsider power, ideology and the boundaries of free speech

The West is haunted.Its ghosts don’t just whisper.They ride, they shoot and they drag you to hell.Across the unforgiving frontier, in forsaken towns like Deadwater and Dry Gulch, grizzled lawmen and hardened drifters discover that the deadliest threats don’t carry six-shooters. From the cursed peaks of Hangman’s Ridge to the shadowy depths of Black Hollow Mine, an ancient evil stirs. The sins of the past refuse to s...

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 ...

"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence★ Finalist – Hugo Award for Best Novelette★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association★ Finalist – Locus Award for NoveletteIf you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an...

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is richly envisioned and powerfulOn Piāo, the floating empire of lotuses, Xīlián discovers the royal advisors' ploy to overthrow her brother, Yún, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make...

Harrowing confessions from the grave. Missing children, deaths, framing, Oakland County, Michigan

Peppy and creative teenager Mikako wants nothing more than to make it as a fashion designer. But when she enters art school alongside her lifelong friend Tsutomu, she finds herself distracted by his sudden popularity and subsequent love life. Despite her feelings, Mikako forms a club with Tsutomu and her friends to sell their creations at a local flea market. While the group is out scouting the flea market, however, discord arises between members in the group and what begins as an exciting...

Can Two Reincarnates Set Aside Their Differences To Save The Villainess?After being reincarnated as the villainess of her favorite fantasy otome game, Claire realizes she has to act fast to save her twin sister and favorite character from falling in love because she’s cursed to literally die of a broken heart! But that won’t be easy when another reincarnate and a big fan of the fox twins is determined to save Miku—by making her fall in love with him instead! Which ...

Three cowboys walk into a bar.It’s not the start of a joke.It’s the start of the biggest, baddest bar brawls the Old West has ever seen.In the dusty, lawless towns of the untamed frontier, a quiet drink is a luxury few can afford. Especially for an unlikely trio of heroes. One a mountain of a man with fists like boulders, another a lanky brawler with a reach that defies reason, and the third a lightning-fast warrior...

Wildly-popular artist Ai Yazawa’s beloved fashion-centric manga, Paradise Kiss, is back in a glamorous omnibus edition to celebrate 20 years since the manga began serialization.Follow Yukari’s through-the-looking-glass journey as she is drawn into the world of fashion by a group of passionate, young aesthetes who are determined to make their couture label a success, with Yukari as their muse...

Shiori was alive...! Mikura can hardly believe his own eyes, yet she ignores his shock to talk business with Araku, proposing a collaboration with her new brand. When he coldly informs her that she's out of her mind to expect such a high sum for the deal, she turns the tables on him by bringing out a voice recording of the threats he threw at her after her escape...! *This volume compiles ch. 41-48 of "Worth a Billion: Modern-Day Courtesan"