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What's New at Tordotcom Publishing To view this email as a webpage, go [here.]( [Tor.com Publishing]( [Forward to a Friend]( Nona Pre-Order Swag and a FREE Siren Queen Preview — What's New at Tordotcom Publishing NONA THE NINTH [NONA THE NINTH PRE-ORDER OFFER]( Pre-order Nona the Ninth by 9.12.22 and [submit]( your receipt to receive a limited edition "One Flesh, One End" enamel pin! Open to US & Canada only (excluding Quebec). [NONA THE NINTH]( Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party... And we’ve got the exclusive guest list! Don’t forget to check out Tor.com’s reveal of Nona the Ninth’s long-awaited [Dramatis Personae]( And, as promised, here is the complete Nona the Ninth poem: You told me, Sleep, I’ll wake you in the morning. I asked, What is morning? and you said, When everyone who fucked with me is dead. When everyone we loved has gone or fled, That’s morning. Empty’s the same as clean. Let’s put this first-draft dream of mine to bed. In that appointed hour I’ll turn down your sheets. I’ll kill the light, Lie down beside you; die; and sleep the night. This time will be the time we get it right: Forgiveness not so hard, nor anger long; Our graves will be less deep, our lies less true. You held aloft the sword. I still love y Nona leant into her and said, “Thanks. I love you too, Camilla,” and: “Do you know who I am yet?” Get your first glimpse at Nona the Ninth with an [exclusive excerpt on Tor.com]( Book Announcement [Book Announcement]( We are thrilled to announce short fiction author S.L. Coney’s debut novella [WILD SPACES]( a foreboding coming-of-age story as rich and humid as the Carolina coast in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions. An eleven-year-old boy has spent an idyllic childhood exploring the humid coasts and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and their dog Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome, the more the boy feels something within him changing—physically—into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous. Wild Spaces will arrive in 2023! SIREN QUEEN Digital Preview [SIREN QUEEN Digital Preview]( Can't wait to read Siren Queen by Nghi Vo? Download a [FREE Digital Preview]( right now! Goodreads Giveaway for THE CITY INSIDE [Goodreads Giveaway for THE CITY INSIDE]( Can’t wait to read The City Inside by Samit Basu? Enter our [Goodreads Sweepstakes]( for a chance to win a free ARC! Better do it soon, though—this offer ends on April 3! New Tordotcom Books Published This Month [Escape from Yokai Land by Charles Stross]( [Escape from Yokai Land]( Charles Stross Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks, and his subsequent return from Tokyo at the start of The Delirium Brief. Escape from Yokai Land explains what he was doing there. Bob's been assigned to work with the Miyamoto Group, checking the wards that lock down Japan's warded sites—a task previously handled by his predecessor Dr. Angleton, the Eater of Souls. This mostly involves policing yokai: traditional magical beings, increasingly grown more annoying and energetic. But then Bob's simple trip turns into a deadly confrontation with the ultimate yokai. It's massively powerful. It's pink. And it says "Hello." GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie]( [All the Horses of Iceland]( Sarah Tolmie A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author of The Fourth Island. Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story. Sarah Tolmie’s All the Horses of Iceland weaves their mystical origin into a saga for the modern age. Filled with the magic and darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, All the Horses of Iceland tells the tale of a Norse trader, his travels through Central Asia, and the ghostly magic that followed him home to the land of fire, stone, and ice. His search for riches will take him from Helmgard, through Khazaria, to the steppes of Mongolia, where he will barter for horses and return with much, much more. All the Horses of Iceland is a delve into the secret, imagined history of Iceland's unusual horses, brought to life by an expert storyteller. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang]( [The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories]( edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter's day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain]( [Kundo Wakes Up]( Saad Z. Hossain Saad Z. Hossain's Kundo Wakes Up is a companion to the Ignyte and Locus Award-Nominated novella The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday. Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong—along with all its remaining residents—to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous journey through an overwhelming maze made up of Chittagong’s neighborhoods, the hidden backrooms of video game parlors, and the depths of cyberspace, culminating in the realm of the djinn themselves, in search of love, redemption, and a good meal. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds]( [Comeuppance Served Cold]( Marion Deeds Seattle, 1929—a bitterly divided city overflowing with wealth, violence, and magic. A respected magus and city leader intent on criminalizing Seattle’s most vulnerable magickers hires a young woman as a lady’s companion to curb his rebellious daughter’s outrageous behavior. The widowed owner of a speakeasy encounters an opportunity to make her husband’s murderer pay while she tries to keep her shapeshifter brother safe. A notorious thief slips into the city to complete a delicate and dangerous job that will leave chaos in its wake. One thing is for certain—comeuppance, eventually, waits for everyone. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [Until The Last of Me by Sylvain Neuvel]( [Until The Last of Me]( Sylvain Neuvel The First Rule is the most important: Always run, never fight. For generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars. The year is 1968 and she is on the cusp of destiny, poised to launch the first humans into space. But she cannot take them to the stars, not quite yet. Her adversary is at her heels, the future of the planet at stake, and obeying the First Rule is no longer an option. For the first time in one-hundred generations, Mia’s family will have to choose to stand their ground, risking not only their bloodline, but the future of the human race. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( Now Available in Paperback [The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo]( [The Chosen and the Beautiful]( Nghi Vo Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo’s debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( Cover Reveals [THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle]( We are thrilled to reveal the cover for the hardcover edition of [THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle]( People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? This edition will feature a new afterword from the author! [THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI by Isaac Fellman]( We are also excited to reveal the cover for [THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI by Isaac Fellman]( Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can’t stop reading people’s minds. This is how she protects herself, using her abilities to give her colleagues what they want out of their relationships with her. When Annae moves to the UK to rebuild her life and finds herself studying under the infamous, misanthropic magician Marec Górski, she sees, inside his head, a dangerous path to her redemption. Annae now faces two choices—follow in Dr. Górski’s lead, or break free of a lifetime of conditioning to forge her own path. [EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END by C.L. Polk]( We are also thrilled to reveal the cover of [EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END by C.L. Polk]( A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist — the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await. 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