2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best NoveletteFrom Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished.Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be th...

The Fire Opal Mechanism is the fast-paced and lively sequel to Fran Wilde's The Jewel and Her LapidaryJewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth.Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something better. Ania, a rumpled librarian, is trying to protect her books from the Pressmen, who value knowledge but none of the humanity that generates it.When they stumble upon a mysterious cl...

Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com OriginalOne can't set a course without a map. A ship's navigator seeks to map a world already inhabited in order to find a space for their ship's passengers to settle. In doing so, they find their course altered as the world and their place in it changes.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) appli...

“A glittering tale of academic jealousy and ancient artifacts, The Book of Gems is a pulse-pounding adventure.” —Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin EmperorSome truths are shatterproof...It’s been centuries since the Jeweled Valley and its magical gems were destroyed. In the republics that rose from its ashes, scientists craft synthetic jewels to heat homes, power gadgetry, and wage war.Dr. Devina Brunai is one of thes...

Leverage meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a gaslamp fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy.The Canarviers are the premier performance thieves in New Washington, blending astonishing acrobatics, clever misdirection, and daring escapes to entertain their rich patrons. As King Canarvier has always told his children, their work is art....

From sentient storms to walkabout skyscrapers, mythical creatures to mysterious museum guides, the characters and tales of the 14 stories in Fran Wilde's A Catalog of Storms challenge and subvert expectations.Here you'll find the Nebula and Hugo Awards finalists "A Catalog of Storms" and "Clearly Lettered in a Most Steady Hand," and multiple Best of the Year anthology selections such as "Shadow Plane" and "The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets."The collection rep...

Mit »Stadt aus Wind und Knochen« hat die amerikanische Debüt-Autorin Fran Wilde einen epischen High-Fantasy-Roman vor einer atemberaubenden Kulisse geschaffenMit der Magie ihrer Stimmen haben die Sänger vor langer Zeit Chaos und Krieg beendet. Seitdem herrschen sie unangefochten in der Stadt der beinernen Türme hoch über den Wolken. Sie sind Hüter des Gesetzes, Bewahrer der Traditionen und die Einzigen, die die Knochentürme weiterwachsen lassen können.Als die junge Kirit die ...

Award-winning fantasy author Fran Wilde returns to her roots in Clock Star Rose Spine, which brings together poems previously published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and more with a selection of work never before published. In this collection illuminated with whimsical fountain pen illustrations, Wilde explores family histories, feminism, visual art, disability, mythology, and of course the sea with tangible yearning and keen insight.

Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy.The Canarviers are the premier performance thieves in New Washington, blending astonishing acrobatics, clever misdirection, and daring escapes to entertain their rich patrons. As...

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished.Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be the last to enjoy that peace.The Jeweled Court has been betrayed. As screaming raiders sweep down from the mountains, and Lapidary servants shatter under the pressur...

The multi-award winning Infinity Project undertakes its seventh and final voyage in the imagination of the finest science fiction authors alive…Infinity’s EndHumanity has made the universe home. On the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the asteroid fields, deep in space, under the surface of planets, in the ruins of fallen civilisations, in the flush of new creation: life finds a way.From intelligent velociraptors to digital ghosts; fro...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors.On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi ...