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Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly. And Sage-Invigilator Angilly – Gil to her friends – needs a second in the spectacularly illegal, culturally offensive and diplomatically inadvisable duel she must fight at midnight.Outreach, that part of the Pal machine that has to work within the imperfection of the rest of the world, has a lot of room for the illegal, the unconventional, the unorthodox. But just how much unorthodoxy can Gil and Loret get away with?As a succession crisis looms, as a long-forgotten feat of necromantic engineering nears fruition, as pirate kin

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable space opera follow-up to the highly acclaimed Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.They thought they’d found refuge. But paradise became a prison.The Sunday Times bestselling science-fiction adventure from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky.Millennia ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Now, generations later, scientist Alis wakes to a nightmare while orbiting this same world. Her research vessel discovered the abandoned outpost, but her crew has met with disaster – leaving her stranded with only Cato, the belligerent mantis-shrimp captain, and Kern, the ship’s AI.Attempting to rescue a missing shipmate, Alis and Cato must descend into the wilderness of the planet below. But the ancient terraformers left something terrifying behind. What horrors did they unleash? And could their last surviving crewmate become a greater threat than

Children of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with a new cast of characters and a thrilling new na

Denland and Lascanne have been allies for generations, but now the Denlanders have assassinated their king, overthrown the monarchy, and marched on their northern neighbor. At the border, the war rage

After the war with the Wasp Empire ended with a stalemate, Collegium and Cheerwell Maker must try to rebuild their lives while Empress Seda and her consort Thalric try to fend off continued threats fr

The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual--a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality--but Uctebri

Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under sieg

Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under sieg

The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades. In far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies and its machines .... And now its