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Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
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"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …

After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince …

The end times have come.
Relos Var's final plans to enslave the universe are on the cusp of fruition. …

The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Champion , sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save …

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza …

Now that Relos Var’s plans have been revealed and demons are free to rampage across the empire, the fulfillment of …

Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there are the things you'd …

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is …

You can have everything you want if you sacrifice everything you believe.
Kihrin D'Mon is a wanted man.
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The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to "New York Times" bestseller "Daemon, Freedom" features a world of rapidly diminishing human power, …

A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a …