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OUT NOW: A Second Chance for Yesterday by R. A. Sinn

We’re wishing A Second Chance for Yesterday by R. A. Sinn a very happy book birthday!

Fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife and In Five Years will adore this time-twisting standalone tale of family, redemption and queer love from a historian and futurist brother and sister writing duo.

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Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She’s been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it’s yesterday. She’s falling backwards in time, one day at a time.

As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her. Airin is charming and mysterious, and somehow knows Nev intimately well. Desperate and intrigued, Nev takes a leap of faith. A friendship born of fear slowly becomes a bond of deepest trust, and possibly love. With time running out, and the whole world of SavePoint users at stake, Nev must learn what it will take to set things right, and what it will cost.

“The authors infuse this plausible near future with clever science and heartwarming explorations of love and second chances. At the heart of this brilliant sci-fi conundrum is a deeply human story.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Fascinating and compelling.”—Booklist

“A gripping and thought-provoking take on time travel, entangled with an emotional thread that will crack your heart open.”—Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars

OUT NOW: The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan

Happy book birthday to The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan!

This luscious tale of Jewish folklore set in a mythical 15th century Spain marks the beginning of a stunning new trilogy that will delight fans of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik and Ava Reid.

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Two worlds bound by a pomegranate gate…

Toba Peres can speak but she can’t shout; she can walk but she can’t run; and she can write in five languages… with both hands at the same time.

Naftaly Cresques dreams every night of an orange-eyed stranger; when awake, he sees things that aren’t real; and he carries a book he can never lose and never read.

When the Queen of Sefarad orders all the nation’s Jews to leave or convert, Toba and Naftaly are forced to flee, but an unlucky encounter leaves them both separated from their caravan. Lost in the wilderness, Toba follows an orange-eyed stranger through a mysterious gate in a pomegranate grove, leaving Naftaly behind.

With a single step, Toba enters an ancient world that mirrors her own. There, she finds that her fate—and Naftaly’s—are bound to an ancient conflict threatening to destroy both realms.

“The Pomegranate Gate is an unforgettable journey to a world lush with magic and imagination. Every page is unearthly and delightful in equal measure—I couldn’t put it down.”—Natasha Siegel, author of Solomon’s Crown

“Wow, I loved it. It’s mythic and human, breathtaking and special. I want to read everything Ariel Kaplan does. You’ll break the rules and eat the fruit just so you can stay in this magical world for a little while longer.”—C.L. Polk, Nebula Award-winning author of Even Though I Knew the End

“A spellbinding work of storytelling with profoundly real characters who will stay with you long after you turn the last page. I loved everything about this book.”—H.G. Parry, author of The Magician’s Daughter

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OUT NOW: Leading the Rebellion by Jason Kingsley OBE

Happy book birthday to Leading the Rebellion: Questing to Succeed in Work and Life by our very own Jason Kingsley OBE!

History is at the centre of Jason Kingsley’s business and lifestyle philosophy, in which he explores Rebellion’s history, and his own, through the lens of the Knightly Code of Chivalry.

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A fascinating look into the business and lifestyle philosophy of Jason Kingsley OBE, CEO of Rebellion.

Rebellion is one of the world’s most successful independent games developers and also a film and TV production company and publisher. Combining his love of Medieval History and success in business, this unique book will give insight into a modern interpretation of the Knightly Code of Chivalry, the moral system which combined a warrior ethos, knightly piety, and courtly manners, all combining to establish a notion of honour and nobility, in a motivational and aspirational take on how to live life to the fullest.

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OUT NOW: Charming by Jade Linwood

We’re wishing Charming by Jade Linwood a very happy book birthday!

Shrek meets John Tucker Must Die in this reimagined fairy tale of con artistry, vengeance and girl power.

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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…

“Fans of Alix E. Harrow’s Fractured Fables series or Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson’s The Tales of Pell series will enjoy this story”—Library Journal

“Delightful”—Booklist

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OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK: Flames of Mira by Clay Harmon

Clay Harmon’s grimdark epic, Flames of Mira, is out now in paperback!

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Magic and redemption in a world of fire and ice.

Among boiling volcanoes under Mira’s frozen lands, people like Ig are forced to undergo life-threatening trials that bind chemical elements to the human body. One of Mira’s most powerful elementals, Ig serves as an enforcer for Magnate Sorrelo Adriann, but is cursed with flesh binding magic that will kill him at the first sign of disobedience.

When Sorrelo is overthrown, Ig quickly learns he can do far worse than what has been asked of him so far. If he can’t escape the flesh binding in time, he will have to kill friend and foe alike to stop his master reclaiming the throne, or sacrifice himself trying.

“A layered, tightly-written debut that explores the terrible costs of power” — Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters

“An awesome, explosive story” — JT Greathouse, author of The Hand of the Sun King

“Dark, tense, and full of action” — Grimdark Magazine

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OUT NOW: If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu

We’re wishing If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu a very happy book birthday! A wizarding firm intern gets more than they bargained for in our second 2023 Solaris Satellites novella…

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“Welcome to One Wizard! How may I help you?”

Being an intern at a wizarding firm 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. 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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OUT NOW: The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow

We’re wishing a very Happy Book Birthday to the first of our Solaris Satellites novellas, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow!

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Asher has been training her entire life to become a Sor-Commander. One day, she’ll give her soul to the gilded, mechanical body of the Sor and become a commander to a whole battalion of Dedicates. These soldiers, human bodies encased in exoskeletons, with extra arms, and telepathic subordination to the Sor-Commanders, are the only thing that’s kept the much larger Levastani army of conquest at bay for decades.

But while on a training journey, Asher and her party are attacked, and her commander is incapacitated, leaving her alone to lead the unit across a bitterly cold, unstable mountain. Worse, one of the Dedicates is not what they seem: a spy for the enemy, with their own reasons to hate their mechanical body and the people who put them in it.

To get off the mountain alive, Asher and her unit will need to decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice — and what for.

“I would follow Asher into any battle, no matter how uncomfortable she would personally feel about that fact.” — Freya Marske, author of The Last Binding Trilogy

“Come for the clockwork battle nuns and fascinating worldbuilding, stay for a profound, moving conclusion that goes straight for the soul.” — Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars

“A brilliant science fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of Murderbot and Becky Chambers.” — Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister

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OUT NOW: The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

We’re wishing The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan a very happy book birthday – it’s out now in North America!

In Apex City, formerly Bangalore, humanity’s relationship with technology and each other in this stunning dystopian mosaic novel from a dazzling new talent.

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Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.

With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent – the Virtual elite – and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws. Until the elusive “Ten Percent Thief” steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.

“A new masterpiece” — SciFiNow

“As satisfying as it is clever” — Publishers Weekly

“Lakshminarayan expertly packages a warning that will only get more relevant with time” — STARBURST Magazine

“Impressive” — SFX

“Playful and crushing in equal measure” — FanFiAddict

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OUT NOW: New Suns 2 ed. by Nisi Shawl

New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color ed. by Nisi Shawl is out now in the US! Not to worry, UK readers, you only need to wait until Thursday to get your hands on a copy.

The follow up to the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE and British Fantasy Award-winning New Suns, New Suns 2 is bursting with fantasy, science fiction and horror stories from the likes of Darcie Little Badger, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due and many more!

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Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races to tell us tales no one has ever told.

Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders.

Including stories by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.

“New Suns 2 offers a composite picture of the best work being done in genre fiction right now” — The Washington Post

“A blockbuster miscellany” — Aurealis

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OUT NOW: Frontier by Grace Curtis

A very happy book birthday to Frontier by Grace Curtis—it’s out now in North America!

A stranger must journey across the unwelcome landscape of a ravaged Earth to be reunited with the woman she loves in this sapphic sci-fi western for fans of Becky Chambers and The Mandalorian.

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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.

Fusing the fire and brimstone of the American Old West with sprawling post-apocalyptic science fiction, Frontier is a heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff set against the backdrop of our planet’s uncertain future.

“Curtis oozes charm and humour in this pacey debut, which will be devoured by fans of Fallout and Firefly” — Tamsyn Muir, NY Times bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series

“A delightfully inventive sci-fi western” — Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker

“Full of action and adventure, but never forgets its heart” –– Beth Revis, NY Times bestselling author of Across the Universe and Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel

“I’m officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club!” — Amie Kaufman, NY Times bestselling author of llluminae