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Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. Moon finally feels like he’s found a tribe where he belongs. But when the travelers reach the ancestral home of Indigo Cloud, shrouded within the trunk of a mountain-sized tree, they discover a blight infecting its core. Nearby they find the remains of the invaders who may be responsible, as well as evidence of a devastating theft. This discovery sends Moon and the hunters of Indigo Cloud on a quest for the heartstone of the tree — a quest that will lead them far away, across the Serpent Sea. In this followup to The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells returns with a world-spanning odyssey, a mystery that only provokes more questions — and the adventure of a lifetime.

While running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie’s plans to stow away on the steamship Merry Bell and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventure. Taken under the protection of Lady Marlende, Emilie learns that the crew hopes to use the aether currents and an experimental engine, and with the assistance of Lord Engal, journey to the interior of the planet in search of Marlende’s missing father. With the ship damaged on arrival, they attempt to traverse the strange lands on their quest. But when evidence points to sabotage and they encounter the treacherous Lord Ivers, along with the strange race of the sea-lands, Emilie has to make some challenging decisions and take daring action if they are ever to reach the surface world again.

A collection of excerpts from some of the best original science fiction short fiction published by Tor.com Blast off into adventure with psychic powers, half-human revolutions, haunted luxury spaceships, murderous sentient robots, and genetic experiments. Check out excerpts from five short works that will be lighting up the stars this summer: Starfire: A Red Peace by Spencer Ellsworth The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison Acadie by Dave Hutchinson All Systems Red by Martha Wells Killing Gravity by Corey J. White. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The November/December 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Ken Liu, Hal Y. Zhang, Brit E.B. Hvide, Martha Wells, Lee Mandelo, and John Wiswell. Reprint fiction by Maurice Broaddus. Essays by Meghan Ball, Meg Elison, Michi Trota, and K.A. Doore, poetry by Jane Yolen, Peter Tacy, Brandon O''Brien, Valerie Valdes, and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Ken Liu and Lee Mandelo by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

***TOP TEN SELECTION FOR BOOKLIST BEST OF HORROR 2016*** The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the twelve principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose within its pages. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many NY Times bestsellers, full of original fiction and artwork, and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson. About the book: Lovecraft''s bestiary of gods has had a major influence on the horror scene from the time these sacred names were first evoked. Cthulhu, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth--this pantheon of the horrific calls to mind the very worst of cosmic nightmares and the very darkest signs of human nature. The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft brings together twelve all-new Mythos tales from: Cthulhu (Adam Nevill) - Yog-Sothoth (Martha Wells) - Azathoth (Laird Barron) - Nyarlathotep (Bentley Little) - Shub-Niggurath (David Liss) - Tsathoggua (Brett Talley) - The Mi-Go (Christopher Golden & James A. Moore) - Night-gaunts (Jonathan Maberry) - Elder Things (Joe Lansdale) - Great Race (Rachel Caine) - Yig (Douglas Wynne) - The Deep Ones (Seanan McGuire)

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of the impassable Ocean. They believe it to be the last home of their ancestors and ask for help getting inside. But the Raksura fear it was built by their own distant ancestors, the Forerunners, and the last sealed Forerunner city they encountered was a prison for an unstoppable evil. Prior to the groundlings’ arrival, the Indigo Cloud court had been plagued by visions of a disaster that could destroy all the courts in the Reaches. Now, the court’s mentors believe the ancient city is connected to the foretold danger. A small group of warriors, including consort Moon, an orphan new to the colony and the Raksura’s idea of family, and sister queen Jade, agree to go with the groundling expedition to investigate. But the predatory Fell have found the city too, and in the race to keep the danger contained, the Raksura may be the ones who inadvertently release it. The Edge of Worlds, from celebrated fantasy author Martha Wells, returns to the fascinating world of The Cloud Roads for the first book in a new series of strange lands, uncanny beings, dead cities, and ancient danger. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Element of Fire was my first novel, written around 1990, when I was 26. It was published in hardcover in 1993 and paperback in 1994, by Tor Books. It was published in Italy in 1995, Russia in 1997, Poland in 1998, in France, by l''Atalante, in 2002, and will be published in Spanish by Bibliopolis. It was a finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award and a runner-up for the 1994 Crawford Award. And it''s almost impossible to find in the US, so I''m posting it here.

Manny Boreaux, a troubled adolescent from Texas, is magically transported into the body of a goblin pickpocket in an alternate world inhabited by faerie creatures. Manny must quickly adapt to the danger all around him and try to find a way to get back home, a feat complicated by the pickpocket''s association with a notorious gang of thieves. But when Manny uncovers a plot to assassinate a young king, he must enlist the aid of an elf cavalier and a cat burglar to thwart a Sidhe witch''s scheme to ignite a civil war between humans and the Fae.

When Dr. Rodney McKay unlocks an Ancient mystery on a distant moon, he discovers a terrifying threat to the Pegasus galaxy. Colonel John Sheppard and his team are determined to disable the device before it''s discovered by the Wraith.

The team discover a ruined city with a deadly secret.

The latest edition of the very best science fiction and fantasy as selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The Nebula Awards Showcase is an anthology of the winners and nominees for the SFWA Nebula Awards. The anthology has been published continuously since 1966 and has featured the very best of science fiction and fantasy. This year''s anthology includes stories from Nebula Winners Rebecca Roanhorse, Martha Wells, and Kelly Robson as well as finalists Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Richard Bowes, K.M. Szpara, Jonathan Brazee, Sarah Pinsker, Caroline M. Yoachim, Fran Wilde, Matthew Kressel, and Jamie Wahls.

Best-seller do New York Times Vencedor dos prêmios Hugo, Locus e Nebula A premiada série de Martha Wells finalmente chega ao Brasil! Alerta vermelho é o primeiro livro da série Diário de um robô-assassino, atualmente sendo adaptada pela Apple TV. Qual é a primeira coisa que lhe vem à cabeça quando você pensa em um robô humanoide que hackeia o próprio sistema e conquista autonomia? Um banho de sangue? Bem, o autointitulado robô-assassino de Alerta vermelho tem outras prioridades... Mais especificamente, maratonar milhares de horas de conteúdo audiovisual em seu feed de entretenimento. Isso, é claro, se os humanos deixarem. Porém, ao ser enviado como parte de uma expedição a um planeta remoto — até mesmo um robô precisa trabalhar —, uma série de eventos misteriosos coloca em risco os humanos que ele foi designado a proteger. Mesmo sem entender muito bem o motivo, ele agora se importa de verdade com a segurança daquele grupo irritante — e ninguém vai tocar nos humanos dele. O robô vai se certificar disso. Ao explorar os limites da inteligência artificial, intrigas políticas e questões como autonomia e identidade pessoal, Martha Wells transcende as fronteiras da ficção científica ao oferecer uma narrativa que seduz tanto entusiastas do gênero quanto leitores ávidos por uma história envolvente.

Ganadora de los premios Hugo, Nebula y Locus En un futuro controlado por entidades corporativas donde el viaje espacial es posible, una compañía de seguros debe aprobar y abastecer todas las misiones planetarias. Los equipos de exploración tienen que ir acompañados de androides suministrados por las aseguradoras, por su propio bien. Pero en una sociedad donde los contratos se conceden al postor más bajo, la seguridad no es lo más importante. Un equipo de científicos lleva a cabo pruebas en la superficie de un planeta lejano, bajo la supervisión del androide de la aseguradora, una SegUnidad con consciencia que ha hackeado su módulo de control y que ha decidido usar el nombre —aunque nunca en voz alta— de «Matabot». No siente mucho cariño por los humanos y lo único que quiere es estar en paz para descubrir quién es en realidad. Pero cuando el equipo de una misión cercana desaparece, los científicos y su Matabot tendrán que averiguar la verdad. «Martha Wells escribe fantasía como debe ser: conmovedora, evocadora y asombrosa. Preparaos para dejaros cautivar hasta el amanecer». Kameron Hurley

機器人的叛逃之路，終點是──浪子回頭？ 幽默、感動、絕無冷場，科幻史上最眼神死的苦命機器人！ 讀者厭世共鳴度100%，看完齊呼：根本就是我！ ！！ 浪機回頭金不換， 偷渡──是你最好的選擇！ 脫離控制、極度危險、高規格武裝的護衛型機器人失蹤了！ 沒人發現這臺叛逃的維安配備偽裝成強化人類，混上各式船艦，一路流浪到了星系盡頭……這下身為「持有者」的曼莎博士麻煩大了。 機器人只想找出自己當年失控的真相，如果在過程中剛好挖出關於曼莎博士對手的黑料，只能說是神祕的宇宙意志了。 它不知道自己能不能及時把證據交給曼莎博士，能不能擊垮害慘它和曼莎博士的邪惡企業，唯一能確定的是： 維安配備的出廠設定沒有內建情感模式，但誰都不能惹它的人類── 誰都不能。 得獎紀錄 ★ 科幻小說大獎：雨果獎、星雲獎、軌跡獎三冠得主 ★ 榮獲美國圖書館協會艾力克斯獎、科技媒體《The Verge》年度最佳書籍 ★ 各大書評齊聲盛讚，兩萬讀者5星狂推 好評推薦 這臺眼神已死、熱愛肥皂劇的殺戮機器的冒險之旅，大概是目前市面上的科幻作品中最充滿人性的閱讀體驗了。──《全國公共廣播電台》書評 討喜、歡樂，毫無冷場又殺機四伏。──得獎科幻作者Kameron Hurley 作者賦予老套劇情全新深度，讓機器人主角帶著不被允許的人性闖蕩其中。──《出版人週刊》星級書評 我已經等不及看續集了！──《The Verge》書評

São tempos de desespero para a Aliança Rebelde. A perseguição do Império e a escassez de suprimentos vitais estão atrasando a construção de uma nova base secreta no gelado planeta Hoth. Quando mercadores da Orla Média ofe-recem preciosos materiais, a Princesa Leia Organa e Han Solo lideram uma delegação da Aliança para negociar um acordo.

Für den zu einer – wenn auch wortkargen – Sicherheitseinheit umfunktionierten Killerbot droht die schlimmste Aufgabe, die man sich vorstellen kann. Sie muss (a) einen Mord auf Preservation Station aufklären (nicht so schlimm), dafür (b) mit der Stations-KI zusammenarbeiten (suboptimal, aber okay) und vor allem (c) mit Menschen reden (sehr schlimm). Als Killerbot bleibt einem auch nichts erspart ...

Kaiisteron, prince démon incarné parmi les humains, et son amie Ziede, sorcière de son état, se réveillent inhumés dans un tombeau abandonné au beau milieu de l’océan. Sans aucun souvenir d’y être venus... À coups d’invocations et de possessions mentales, ils remontent la piste d’une autre disparition inquiétante, celle de Tahren Stargard, l’épouse de Ziede. Ce sera le fil rouge de leur quête, puisque Tahren doit elle aussi jouer un rôle crucial dans le renouvellement des alliances politiques en cours, en tant que représentante de son peuple, les Bienheureux immortels. « Une fantasy follement originale et complexe, qui explore comment les révolutions se gagnent par la confiance et meurent par égoïsme. Martha Wells s’illustre par ses personnages non-humains sombres et puissants, qui n’ont besoin que d’un soupçon de bonté pour déployer tout leur redoutable potentiel. » - N. K. Jemisin Prix Locus 2024

MURDERBOT - I DIARI DELLA MACCHINA ASSASSINA Il mondo è in mano alle grandi corporazioni, che forniscono tutto il necessario anche per le missioni interplanetarie. Soprattutto gli androidi di sorveglianza, che garantiscono l''incolumità delle squadre di esplorazione. Ma in una società in cui i contratti se li aggiudica il miglior offerente, qualche imprevisto può sempre succedere. Su un lontano pianeta, per esempio, alcuni scienziati eseguono rilievi sulla superficie convinti che l''Unità di Sicurezza con componenti organiche fornita dalla compagnia vegli su di loro. Murderbot, invece, è riuscita a hackerare il proprio modulo di controllo e, dotata di una sensibilità tutt''altro che meccanica, inizia un avventuroso viaggio alla ricerca di sé.

Ganadora de los premios Hugo y Locus Tiene un pasado oscuro en el que murieron muchos humanos. Y por ese pasado decidió llamarse Matabot. Pero, de la masacre que le dio nombre solo conserva un recuerdo confuso, y ahora quiere saber más. Tras unir fuerzas con un Transporte de Investigación llamado TIP (es mejor no saber qué significa esa P), Matabot se dirige a la instalación minera donde todo se descontroló. Sus descubrimientos harán que su forma de pensar cambie para siempre.

The follow-up to the hugely popular All Systems Red It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...

MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. The MECH: Age of Steel anthology features a vast array of tales showcasing giant human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, and more! MECH is anchored by authors such as: Kevin J. Anderson Scott Sigler Ramez Naam Jason M. Hough Jeremy Robinson Jody Lynn Nye Peter Clines Martha Wells Graham McNeill Jennifer Brozek James Swallow and more! This anthology also features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters. So strap in. Activate your interface array. And let''s rock!

"The Dead City" is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. As Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly caravanserai finds itself under attack by a strange force.

The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn''t admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it''s "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I''ve ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today. No, I didn''t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn''t dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A standalone adventure in the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series! The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol Exit Strategy Network Effect Fugitive Telemetry System Collapse

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella Winner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella Winner: 2018 Alex Award Winner: 2018 Locus Award One of the Verge''s Best Books of 2017 A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it''s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol Exit Strategy Network Effect Fugitive Telemetry System Collapse

L''élégant Nicholas Valiarde, cambrioleur de génie, est sur le point d''assouvir sa vengeance contre le comte Montesq. Mais un étrange spirite se dresse sur sa route. Les événements se précipitent: goules, sortilèges, monstres et nécromancie... L''ombre d''un ennemi terrifiant s''étend peu à peu sur la ville. Situé dans une Vienne imaginaire et gothique où la magie est devenue une science, ce roman d''une profonde originalité, nominé en 1998 pour le Nebula Award, orchestre une fantasy macabre magistralement construite.