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 A young artificer and a young inventor fight society to make a place for themselves and their work...
A veteran reunites with a lost comrade in an amnesty city that cocoons anyone who considers violence...
A foreign balladeer struggles for her family and her reputation in a town seething with border strife...
Rivers trapped in bipedal form stir rebellion against the empire that imprisoned them...
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 A glassblower of renown sees the world and more through the glass eyes of her patrons...
A woman yearns to escape her oasis city by eating reptile eggs and transforming...
A sorcerer mother must train a child raised in total isolation in order to save their homeland...
A salvager risks her life and career to visit the spaceship wreck where her daughter died...
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 A seer of the dead must find the king’s illegitimate nephew so he can be executed...
A mother escaping with her baby follows a coyote into a strange and dangerous dreamland...
A wing-maker fights her father’s addiction and her own fear to save her family trade...
A reluctant exile idly companionable with a mute automaton must endure an eager revolutionary...
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 A young woman climbs a mountain for a last glimpse of the child she carved from living stone...
A general crosses a desert of temples and sentient winds who know her past and future...
A mute veteran struggles with her scars and the vicious pet crow of her asylum’s warden doctor...
A mage inhabits animal figurines blown from molten caramel and bargains with spirit gods for his father and himself...
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 A fallen-angel gunslinger must defend a dusty town against hellspawn....
Living trains roam wild off their tracks....
A pious teetotaler widow faces a town’s scorn and a dying boy’s frantic spirit....
An eternal warrior marshal is drawn through time to face that which must be faced....
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 A woman climbs an ice-mountain, feeding her companion her own blood to stave off Death....
A fisher discovers the sagas and songs sung by centuries-dead barrow ghost women....
An asexual sun goddess sets impossible challenges that fail to deter her incessant suitor....
A lover wends through city canals and told tales in a living boat to woo a golden woman....
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 A former scarecrow must help retake a castle from talking bears....
A bureaucrat falls in love with a ghostly woman whose palace disappears when he wakes.....
A seer in love with her fugitive husband’s enemy must not scry her own death or it will happen....
A rebel saboteur carries the personalities of massacre victims in a book compiled by her dead sister....
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 An armonica player is driven manic by appearances of an audience woman he saw die....
A fallen angel gunslinger must defend a dusty town against hellspawn....
A scientist tries to save his brother from a seductress who plants flower bulbs in her lovers’ chests....
A bon-vivant is horrified to join his dinner hosts in swallowing live squid, until his head turns into one....
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 A gardensmith crafts fanciful clockworks to enchant his noblewoman love....
Four burghers renege on a dark bargain by commissioning an automaton proxy....
A restless librarian yearns to escape a city that bounces up and down in the sky....
A flock of clockwork birds tries to redeem their Jaguar Knight creator....
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 A foreigner duels his lover’s clan with a living sword grown from bone....
A captain’s daughter must write a poem to free her becalmed ship....
A troubador plays a world-destroying song for a countess’s execution....
A flock of clockwork birds tries to redeem their Jaguar Knight creator....
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 A poet and a thief must carry a magic sword that makes them alarmingly cheerful....
A god made of corn stalks haunts a woman whose heart was cut out....
A samurai investigating a ruined mansion finds a ghost of his long-dead brother....
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