Nona is here! 2022 Hugo Award Winners, Martha Wells & S.L. Huang cover reveal, and more!

To view this email as a webpage, go [here.]( [Tor.com Publishing]( [Forward to a Friend]( New Tordotcom Books Published This Month [The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle]( [The Ballad of Black Tom]( Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom—the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award-winning excavation of Lovecraftian mythos by Victor LaValle—is given new life in a brand-new hardcover edition. 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? GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir]( [Nona the Ninth]( Tamsyn Muir Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona…the Ninth? Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever. And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face… GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [Lucky Girl by M. Rickert]( [Lucky Girl]( M. Rickert Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer is a story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert. Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner—all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is—she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. One that's seasonally appropriate. But Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale—or one's past—can never be tamed once unleashed. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( [Leech by Hiron Ennes]( [Leech]( Hiron Ennes A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy. MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed. In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron's castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [iBooks]( Cover Reveals [THE WATER OUTLAWS by S.L. Huang]( We are so excited to reveal the cover of [THE WATER OUTLAWS by S.L. Huang]( A queer epic fantasy full of bandits, heroes, and revolution, inspired by the Chinese classic Water Margin; She Who Became the Sun meets The Dirty Dozen. In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own. Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart. Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They're also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats. Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire. [WITCH KING by Martha Wells]( We are so thrilled to reveal the cover of [WITCH KING by Martha Wells]( From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose. Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn't always been, and he hasn't even always been Kai-Enna! After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai's magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence? Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions. He's not going to like the answers. WITCH KING is Martha Wells's first new fantasy in over a decade, drawing together her signature ability to create characters we adore and identify with, alongside breathtaking action and adventure, and the wit and charm we've come to expect from one of the leading writers of her generation. [THE ARCHIVE UNDYING by Emma Mieko Cando]( We are thrilled to reveal the cover of [THE ARCHIVE UNDYING by Emma Mieko Candon]( Giant robots and AI gods run amok in this bold entry into the world of mecha fiction. WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen years since then, Sunai has walked the land like a ghost, unable to die, unable to age, and unable to forget the horrors he's seen. He's run as far as he can from the wreckage of his faith, drowning himself in drink, drugs, and men. But when Sunai wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with, he finds himself on a path straight back into the world of gods and machines. The Archive Undying is the first volume of Emma Mieko Candon's Downworld Sequence, a sci-fi series where AI deities and brutal police states clash, wielding giant robots steered by pilot-priests with corrupted bodies. Come get in the robot. [THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera]( We are so excited to reveal the cover of [THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera]( Chandrasekera's debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors is a richly imagined postcolonial fantasy set in an unsane metropolis, brimming with history, on the verge of eruption. Nestled at the head of a supercontinent, framed by sky and sea, lies Luriat, the city of bright doors. The doors are everywhere in the city, squatting in walls where they don't belong, painted in vivid warning. They watch over a city of art and avarice, of plagues and pogroms, and silently refuse to open. No one knows what lies beyond them, but everyone has their own theory and their own relationship to the doors. Researchers perform tests and take samples, while supplicants offer fruit and flowers and hold prayer circles. Many fear the doors as the source of hauntings from unspeakable realms. To a rare unchosen few, though, the doors are both a calling and a bane. Fetter is one of those few. When Fetter was born, his mother tore his shadow from him. She raised him as a weapon to kill his sainted father and destroy the religion rising up in his sacred footsteps. Now Fetter is unchosen, lapsed in his devotion to both his parents. He casts no shadow, is untethered by gravity, and sees devils and antigods everywhere he goes. With no path to follow, Fetter would like to be anything but himself. Does his answer wait on the other side of one of Luriat's bright doors? Award News! Congratulations to all of our Hugo Award winners! 🎉 [Hugo Award Winner Best Related Work]( [Hugo Award Winner Best Novella]( [Hugo Award Winner Best Series]( [Hugo Award Winner Best Editor, Long Form] [Remote Control]( won the Nommo Award for Best Novella! Congratulations, [Nnedi Okorafor]( 🎉 [Nommo Award Winner Best Novella] [Defekt]( won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella! Congratulations, [Nino Cipri]( 🎉 [British Fantasy Award Winner Best Novella] [A Master of Djinn]( won the Ignyte Award for Best Novel: Adult! Congratulations, [P. Djèlí Clark]( 🎉 [Ignyte Award for Best Novel: Adult] [The Future Library]( won the Ignyte Award for Best Novelette! Congratulations, [Peng Shepherd]( 🎉 [Ignyte Award for Best Novelette] Follow Tor.com Publishing [f]( [t]( [g]( [t]( This email was sent by: Macmillan 120 Broadway New York, NY, 10271, US We respect your right to privacy - [view our policy]( Macmillan believes piracy hurts writers, readers and everyone who loves books. 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