Risingshadow: April 2019 Edition

Humanagerie (edited by Sarah Doyle and Allen Ashley) was published by Eibonvale Press in October 2018. Information about the editors: Allen Ashley is a British Fantasy Award winning editor and a prizewinning poet. He is the author or editor of fourteen published books including the novel The Planet Suite (Eibonvale Press, 2016) and the short story collection Once and Future Cities (Eibonvale Press, 2009). He works as a critical reader and also as a creative writing tutor with five groups ... [read more]

Rebecca Lloyd's The Bellboy was published by Zagava in 2018. [author_9099] [book_57873_quote_right] REVIEW: THE BELLBOY BY REBECCA LLOYD [read more]

Eldon Thompson's The Ukinhan Wilds was published by Cyndyn in August 2018. Information about Eldon Thompson: Eldon Thompson is the author of The Legend of Asahiel trilogy: The Crimson Sword, The Obsidian Key and The Divine Talisman. Click here to visit his official website. Information about The Ukinhan Wilds: Assassin. Rogue. Demon’s bane. Dragon-slayer. Kylac Kronus has been called many names, and earned every one of them. Months shy of his seventeenth spring, he is already the ... [read more]

Gareth L. Powell's Fleet of Knives was published by Titan Books in February 2018. [author_3970] [book_51445_quote_right] REVIEW: FLEET OF KNIVES BY GARETH L. POWELL [read more]

Peter Glassborow's Franchise was published by Elsewhen Press in a digital format in September 2018 and in paperback in December 2018. [author_10578] [book_57172_quote_right] REVIEW: FRANCHISE BY PETER GLASSBOROW [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of hosting a guest post by the debut author Patrick Edwards. This guest post is part of the Ruin's Wake Blog Tour. Information about Patrick Edwards: Patrick Edwards lives in Bristol and has never grown out of his fascination with science and the future. In 2014, he decided to give writing a go and graduated from the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA with distinction. His first novel, Ruin’s Wake, was inspired by the works of Iain M. Banks and modern-day North ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Robin Nyström. About Robin Nyström Robin Nyström is a Swedish-born writer/director residing in Los Angeles, CA. His latest project Tracy Buckles is an award-winning fantasy comedy web series. It’s been described as Harry Potter with an R-rated kick, and it stars newcomer Ana Lake as a kick-ass female lead. Across 6 fast-paced episodes, the series delivers not only magic spells and wicked witches, but also a good deal of ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing another guest short story by Bruce Woods, the author of Royal Blood. This story is told by the protagonist of Royal Blood, Miss Paulette Monot. (You can find the previous story here.) About Royal Blood: Historical and fictional characters come together and change the future of Africa forever. Renowned actress Lady Ellen Terry, detective Sherlock Holmes, financier Cecil Rhodes, hunter/naturalist Frederick Courtney Selous, King Lobengula, and a ... [read more]

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Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest short story by Bruce Woods, the author of Royal Blood. This story is told by the protagonist of Royal Blood, Miss Paulette Monot. (Click here to read another story.) About Royal Blood: Historical and fictional characters come together and change the future of Africa forever. Renowned actress Lady Ellen Terry, detective Sherlock Holmes, financier Cecil Rhodes, hunter/naturalist Frederick Courtney Selous, King Lobengula, and a mysterious, ... [read more]

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Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Kellie Doherty. Kellie Doherty is an author from Eagle River, Alaska, who writes science fiction and fantasy. Living in Alaska gave her an appreciation for nature, a hankering for a good cup of tea, and a passion for all things below zero. During those dark winter nights, she kept herself busy by writing stories and creating characters. When she noticed a lack of queer characters in science fiction and fantasy stories, she decided to create her ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Kyle Alexander Romines, the author of the Warden of Fál fantasy series. Kyle Alexander Romines is a teller of tales from the hills of Kentucky. He enjoys good reads, thunderstorms, and anything edible. His writing interests include fantasy, science fiction, horror, and western. Kyle's debut horror novel, The Keeper of the Crows, appeared on the Preliminary Ballot of the 2015 Bram Stoker Awards in the category of Superior Achievement in a First ... [read more]

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Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze's The Beauty of the Death Cap was published by Snuggly Books in August 2018. Information about Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze: Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze is Associate Professor of French at Durham University, U.K. She is the author of numerous books, critical editions and articles on nineteenth-century literature and French cinema. Her latest book, Claude Chabrol’s Aesthetics of Opacity, was released by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. The Beauty of the ... [read more]

A novella. Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost. 2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the ... [read more]

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(The Expanse #8)

The eighth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series - now a major television series. Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, ... [read more]

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(Noobtown #1)

It could be worse. You could be stuck with a literal shoulder demon. After dying and being reborn into a world that's built like a video game, Jim has found himself stuck in a very old world style new player zone for low level adventurers. Unfortunately, the zone fell out of use centuries ago, and no one told the monsters they were supposed to take it easy on the Noobs. Even worse, the only new player around is Jim. Jim has been given an opportunity, and he'll do his best to take advantage of it. [read more]

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(The Keepers #1)

When magic returns to the world, one man must lay aside his words of peace and take up the sword to defend humanity in the first book of this bold new trilogy by USA Todaybestselling author David Dalglish. Devin Eveson is a Soulkeeper, traveling through remote villages as a preacher and healer. But when a mysterious black water washes over the world, the veil is torn, flooding the land with ancient magic and forgotten races: fire that dances as if alive, corpses that walk, and creatures that ... [read more]

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Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt ... [read more]

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(White Space #1)

A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law... usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence — with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big — just once — to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the ... [read more]

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(The Sunsurge Quartet #3)

Summer is gone, and the world is turning to ice. The Rondian Empress Lyra has lost her husband, her army is defeated and the deadly Masked Cabal have seized the Holy City. Her allies have abandoned her and her empire is spiralling into chaos - and her only weapon is a forbidden magic she dare not use. She can't survive alone - but who can she still trust? 'Vibrant, memorable characters' - SciFi Now The Eastern conqueror Sultan Rashid is victorious on the battlefield, but now he faces an ... [read more]

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(Sorcerer Royal #2)

In the follow-up to the "delightful" regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae. When maidservant Muna joins the household of fabled witch Mak Genggang, she and her sister Sakti are in dire need of magical protection. They're under a mysterious curse - one that has left them with no memories of who they were before they awoke on the shores of the island of ... [read more]

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(The Elite Guards #3)

Icelyn was given to the Horde to pay a tithe owed to them by her court. She had no plan of letting them claim her or enter her court. One arrow should have ended it, only it didn’t stop anything. Instead, she’s now prisoner to the broody, cocky, self-absorbed prince that makes her want things she’s never thought possible. Will she be able to resist him and save her court from the horrors that the Horde has planned? Sinjinn had a mission: Get Cailean to the Winter Court to claim his ... [read more]

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(The Elite Guards)

A short story. Previously Released in Love Potion Anthology. Lilith has spent her life in the ruins of her mother’s court that the Horde destroyed. Summoned to her father’s court, her entire world is turned upside down. Her father has offered her to the Horde to pay the tithe owed to them, and she’d rather die before bowing to the Horde, but if she intends to keep her secrets, she will kneel to the murderous Horde who destroyed her kingdom, and left it in ruins. Asrian agreed to take ... [read more]

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Translated by Ken Liu. Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands of people like Mimi toil day and night, hoping that one day they too will get to enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three scrap families who have ruled the isle for generations. It all changes when a ship bearing a dangerous cargo arrives at Silicon Isle. ... [read more]

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(The Siege #1)

The powerful new novel from World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker and the start of a sweeping new epic fantasy series. A siege is approaching, and the City has little time left to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy have sworn to slaughter them all. Their only chance rests with a colonel of engineers - a despised outsider, a genius, a master of military and political strategy with the wrong colour skin. He is the City's only hope. But nobody, rich or poor, ... [read more]

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(The Eldest Curses #1)

From #1 New York Times bestseller Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new trilogy featuring the centuries-old High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood after they survive the Mortal War. Magnus Bane, a centuries old High Warlock, has taken possession of one of the great relics of the supernatural world, a powerful spell book of dark magic known as The Book of the White and there are many who want to claim it for themselves. After the Mortal War where the part-human ... [read more]

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(Black Dagger Brotherhood #17)

A vampire and a scientist’s fates are passionately entwined in a race against time in this thrilling romance in the #1 New York Times bestselling “utterly absorbing and deliciously erotic” (Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author) Black Dagger Brotherhood series. In the venerable history of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, only one male has ever been expelled — but Murhder’s insanity gave the Brothers no choice. Haunted by visions of a female he could not save, he ... [read more]

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(Book of the Ancestor #3)

Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor. THEY CAME AGAINST HER AS A CHILD. NOW THEY FACE THE WOMAN. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat. Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that Nona ... [read more]

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Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first ... [read more]

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(Teixcalaan #1)

Hugo Award 2020. This incredible opening to the duology recalls the best of John le Carré, Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy. In a war of lies she seeks the truth... Ambassador Mahit Dzmare travels to the Teixcalaanli Empire’s interstellar capital, eager to take up her new post. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no one will admit his death wasn’t accidental – and she might be next. Now Mahit must navigate ... [read more]

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(Of Blood and Bone #2)

Defy the darkness. Defend the light. Drem and his friends flee the battle at Starstone Lake to warn the Order of the Bright Star. They’ve witnessed horrors they’ll never forget, such as magic warping men into beasts. But worst of all, they’ve seen a demon rise from the dead – making it even more powerful. Now Fritha, the demons’ high priestess, is hunting Drem’s party. Concealed in Forn Forest, Riv struggles to understand her half-breed heritage. She represents the warrior ... [read more]

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(Alex Craft #6)

Alex Craft returns in a thrilling new paranormal romance from bestselling author Kalayna Price. Perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Cassandra Clare Alex Craft is the Grave Witch to go to when Nekros City needs to speak to the dead. Half-human, half-fae, she uses her powers to investigate mysterious deaths - but often at a cost. And Alex's latest case promises to be even more dangerous than her last, when the Shadow Prince demands her services. Notorious for his secrecy and lethal good ... [read more]

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A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival. When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck — enough to get her off-planet and on ... [read more]

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