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Revealing the cover of Sinophagia ed. by Xueting C. Ni

We’re delighted to be sharing the cover of Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror edited and translated by Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon.

With a cover illustrated by 2024 Hugo Award nominee Alyssa Winans, Sinophagia will be released this September and is available to preorder now!

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An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the very first time.

Fourteen dazzling horror stories delve deep into the psyche of modern China in this new anthology curated by acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon.

From the menacing vision of a red umbrella, to the ominous atmosphere of the Laughing Mountain; from the waking dream of virtual working to the sinister games of the locked room… this is a fascinating insight into the spine-chilling voices working within China today – a long way from the traditional expectations of hopping vampires and hanging ghosts.

This ground-breaking collection features both well-known names and bold upcoming writers, including: Hong Niangzi, Fan Zhou, Chu Xidao, She Cong Ge, Chuan Ge, Goodnight, Xiaoqing, Zhou Dedong, Nanpai Sanshu, Yimei Tangguo, Chi Hui, Zhou Haohui, Su Min, Cai Jun, and Gu Shi.

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Revealing the cover of Queen of None by Natania Barron

We’re so delighted to reveal the stunning cover of Queen of None by Natania Barron, designed by Nat Mackenzie!

In the first instalment of her stunning Queens of Fate trilogy, Natania Barron gives a voice to King Arthur’s oft-forgotten sister, Anna Pendragon, in a feminist historical fantasy for fans of The Cleaving and My Name is Morgan.

Anna will be remembered. May 2024.

When Anna Pendragon was born, Merlin prophesied: “Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten.”

Married at twelve, and a mother soon after, Anna – the famed King Arthur’s sister – did not live a young life full of promise, myth, and legend. She bore three strong sons and delivered the kingdom of Orkney to her brother by way of her marriage. She did as she was asked, invisible and useful for her name, her status, her dowry, and her womb.

Twenty years after she left her home, Anna returns to Carelon at Arthur’s bidding, carrying the crown of her now-dead husband, Lot of Orkney. Past her prime and confined to the castle itself, she finds herself yet again a pawn in greater machinations and seemingly helpless to do anything about it.

Anna must once again face the demons of her childhood: her sisters Morgen, Elaine, and Morgause; Merlin and his scheming Avillion priests; and Bedevere, the man she once loved. To say nothing of new court visitors, like Lanceloch, or the trouble concerning her own sons.

Carelon, and all of Braetan, is changing, though, and Anna must change along with it. New threats, inside and out, lurk in the shadows, and a strange power begins to awaken in her. As she learns to reconcile her dark gift, and struggles to keep the power to herself, she must bargain her own strength, and family, against her ambition and thirst for revenge.

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Revealing the paperback cover for The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett!

We’re delighted to bring our #HalfwaytoHalloween celebration to an end by revealing the gorgeous cover for the paperback edition of The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett!

Annihilation meets The Descent in this dual timeline folk horror debut. If you go down to the woods today, you’ll be sure of a big surprise.

The Dark Between the Trees will be out in paperback this October. Cover by Dominic Forbes.

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood… unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight…

Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will… and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.

Today, five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood. Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr Christopher’s group enters the wood ready for anything.

Or so they think.

“A memorable, spooky tale.” — The Guardian

“Folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.” — Esquire

“An unsettling and compelling folk horror.” — SFX

“An impressive debut” — The FT

“Surreal and haunting” — Booklist

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Revealing the cover for If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu!

Today we’re so excited to begin our #HalfwaytoHalloween celebration by revealing the cover of our second 2023 Solaris Satellites novella, If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu!

Journeyman Wen’s internship at One Wizard takes a sinister turn when their client is possessed by a demon prince from Hell…

If Found, Return to Hell is out this June!

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yelled at by senior mages and angry clients who’ve been turned into platypuses alike. So when Journeyman Wen receives a frantic call from a young man who’s awoken to a talisman on his bedroom wall and no memory of how it got there, they jump at the chance to escape call center duty and actually help someone for once.

But the case ends up being more complicated than Wen could ever have anticipated. Their client has been possessed by a demon prince from Hell, and he’s not interested in leaving…

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Revealing the UK cover of The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang!

This International Women’s Day we’re beyond excited to reveal the gorgeous UK cover of S. L. Huang’s forthcoming queer wuxia fantasy, The Water Outlaws!

Inspired by the Chinese classic Water Margin, The Water Outlaws is a rich epic fantasy for fans of Shelley Parker-Chan, Ken Liu and Fonda Lee. It’s out in the UK this August and will be available to pre-order very soon!

In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.

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.

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Revealing the cover for Charming by Jade Linwood

We’re delighted to share the stunning cover for Charming by Jade Linwood!

Shrek meets John Tucker Must Die in this tale of three fairy tale princesses seeking revenge on their shared ex, Prince Charming…

Charming will be released in July 2023.

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Brave, Resourceful, Deceitful, Double-Crossing… Charming.

Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as “Prince Charming,” is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless swordsman, a cunning tactician – and a liar, a con man and a fraud. For years he has been travelling from one kingdom to the next, rescuing endangered princesses and maidens, securing their troths and his place in their fathers’ palaces, then looting their treasuries and having it away before dawn.

Until a chance meeting of three of his victims – raven-haired Marie Blanche de Neige, the sorceress Doctor Emilia Rapunzel and the long-slumbering Bella Lucia dei’ Sogni – suggests a course of revenge…

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Revealing the paperback cover of Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney!

We’re delighted to share the cover for the paperback of C. S. E. Cooney’s stunning debut novel, Saint Death’s Daughter!

The wicked abandon of Gideon the Ninth meets the whimsy of The Last Unicorn in this tale of a necromancer with an allergy to violence who chooses gentleness again and again.

Saint Death’s Daughter will be released in paperback on 14 February 2023.

Nothing complicates life like Death.

Lanie Stones, the daughter of crown-appointed killers, was born with a gift for necromancy—and a literal allergy to violence. For her own safety, she was raised in isolation in a crumbling mansion by the family’s mouldering revenant.

When Lanie’s parents are murdered, she and her psychotic sister Nita must settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home. When Liriat’s ruler, too, is murdered, it throws the whole nation’s future into doubt.

Hunted by Liriat’s enemies, terrorised by family ghosts and tortured by a forbidden love for a childhood friend, Lanie will need more than luck to get through the next few months—but when the goddess of Death is on your side, anything is possible.

“Grisly, dark, lovely, funny, heartfelt.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Saint Death’s Daughter exemplifies what fantasy can do in the best of ways.” — Strange Horizons

“Every character arrives in a burst: fully-realized, always finding their mark, dripping with detail and a fire in their heart.” — Tor.com

“I loved Saint Death’s Daughter to pieces.” — Katherine Addison

“Saint Death’s Daughter is a tumultuous, swaggering, cackling story, a gorgeous citrus orchard with bones for roots. Miscellaneous Stones’ journey into adulthood and power, sorting knowledge from wisdom and vengeance from justice, has an ocean’s breadth and depth, its storms and sparkles and salt. Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy–I have never read anything so utterly alive.” — Amal El-Mohtar

“I don’t want to tell you much about this book. I want you to experience it the way I did; a cake whose every layer is more delicious than the last; a gemstone that always has another glittering facet when you turn it over in your hands; a gift that never stops giving. This is a book you should go into unprepared – and unarmed.” — Every Book A Doorway

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Revealing the cover for Frontier by Grace Curtis

We’re over the moon to share the stunning cover of Frontier by Grace Curtis with you today!

We’re bringing this sapphic space western for fans of Firefly and The Mandalorian to North American bookshelves in February 2023 – it’s available to preorder now!

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In the distant future most of the human race has fled a ravaged Earth to find new life on other planets. For those who stayed a lawless society remains. Technology has been renounced, and saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travelers and gunslingers, abound.

What passes for justice is presided over by the High Sheriff, and carried out by his cruel and ruthless Deputy.

Then a ship falls from the sky, bringing the planet’s first visitor in three hundred years. This Stranger is a crewmember on the first ship in centuries to attempt a return to Earth and save what’s left. But her escape pod crashes hundreds of miles away from the rest of the wreckage.

The Stranger finds herself adrift in a ravaged, unwelcoming landscape, full of people who hate and fear her space-born existence. Scared, alone, and armed, she embarks on a journey across the wasteland to return to her ship, her mission, and the woman she loves.

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Revealing the cover of Enter the Meta by Colette Bennett

We’re delighted to reveal the stunning paperback cover of Enter the Meta  by Colette Bennett

Lissa is obsessed with Ancestral, the latest and greatest battle arena co-op game out there—and she’s really good at it. If she wants to get to the top, she will have to band together with her best friend Ji-Soo—and their friends Ray, Zio, Jae-Jin and Lucas—to become Team Phoenix. With the support of former pro Esport-player, Devon, Team Phoenix trains day and night for the upcoming Regional Championships.


But the road to victory has its twists and turns: Lissa is haunted by the loss of her brother, Ji-Soo’s got a crush on Jae-Jin, and they’re up against the number one team in the region, Mastermind, a group of frat boys who aren’t afraid to play dirty. The odds feel stacked against them, but Team Phoenix is determined to rise from the ashes.

Enter the Meta is out January 2023!

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Revealing the paperback cover of The Carnival of Ash by Tom Beckerlegge

We’re delighted to reveal the stunning paperback cover of The Carnival of Ash by Tom Beckerlegge!

An Instance of the Fingerpost meets The Binding in this gorgeous mosaic novel of an Italian city that never was.

The Carnival of Ash is out in paperback in January 2023!

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Welcome to the City of Words…

Tommaso Cellini, celebrated ruler of Cadenza, is dead. For Carlo Mazzoni, an aspiring poet, it is the worst possible moment to arrive at the city gates, his dreams of literary fame turning to disappointment and disgrace.

For Vittoria – known to all but a handful as the notorious ink maid Hypatia – Tommaso’s death is overshadowed by the disappearance of her creative spark, while Vittoria’s impulsive sister Maddelina seeks to make her own name with a daring conspiracy.

As Cadenza descends into anarchy amid rumours of war with its rival Venice, Carlo and the two sisters become entangled in intrigue, murder and revolution.

“A gorgeous, immersive triumph of Renaissance-flavored worldbuilding” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“The zest and wit that Beckerlegge infuses into his fantastical Decameron is marvelous” — Locus

“This is a fabulous book” — The Historical Novels Review, Editor’s Choice