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**"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of tension and heart." —Caitlin Rozakis, New York Times bestselling author of Startup HellIn this heartfelt and humorous fantasy from the Nebula-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In, a dragon whose three heads bear rather…different...personalities finds family in the most unexpected of places.*...

**Nebula and Locus Award Winner!Hugo Award NomineeAn NPR, Washington Post, Book Riot, Library Journal and Audible Best Book of 2024!"This novel is monstrously perfect, in every way" —P. Djèlí Clark for The New York Times**“This unusual queer romance is a heartfelt fable about disability and the possibility of reconciling conflicting needs through love and understanding.” —The Guardian"Sweet...

***Nebula Award Nominee*"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. Wearing the Lion establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantasy landscape." —T. Kingfisher, Hugo Award-winning author of Nettle & Bone"Wiswell makes something new and thrilling—and funny and wrenching and tender—out of a very old myth." —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Book of LoveNebula Award-win...

Nebula Award-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell brings a humanizing and humorous touch to the Hercules story, forever changing the way we understand the man behind the myth—and the goddess reluctantly bound to himSometimes a goddess's worst enemy is her biggest fan.Heracles, hero of Greece, dedicates all his feats to the goddess Hera. If only he knew that his very face is an insult to her . . . as he is yet anot...

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she's found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warmhearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human. Homily...

The November/December 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by John Wiswell, Grace P. Fong, A.T. Greenblatt, Mary Robinette Kowal, Del Sandeen, Rachael Swirsky, and Mari Ness. Essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Dawn Xiana Moon, Veda Scott, Arley Sorg, Marissa Lingen, and Greer Gilman and Sofia Samatar, poetry by Abu Baqr Sadiq, Hal Y. Zhang, Mary Soon Lee, and Miriam Alex,an interview with John Wiswell by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Gra...

A man using a social media app that reaches across dimensions to talk to himself in different timelines, discovers some of his problems are universal...and some are not...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father tries to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing dragon and her unconventional platform...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't find a solution to the city's worsening drought, two self-taught magicians, Noah and his partner Manny, take it upon themselves to find a solution to the crisis in "D.I.Y.", John Wiswell's Tor.com Original short storyPeople ask how Noah could possibly turn down the Ozymandias Academy. All they know about him is the headlines, and they think he’s ungrateful. What you d...

The year's best science fiction and fantasy as selected by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers AssociationThis latest installment of the prestigious Nebula Awards Showcase anthology series—which has been published annually since 1966—reprints winning and nominated works from the 58th Annual Nebula Awards, as voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).Nebula Awards Showcase 58 features stories and excerpts by this y...

The May/June 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Arkady Martine, Sarah Rees Brennan, Tia Tashiro, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Rati Mehotra, K.S. Walker, and John Wiswell. Essays by John Scalzi, Amy Berg, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Cara Liebowitz, poetry by Angela Liu, Ali Trotta, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, and Fran Wilde, interviews with Arkady Martine and K.S. Walker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Zara Alfonso, and an editorial by Lynne M...