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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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Top New Fantasy Books July 2020

The Book of Dragons: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan

Type: Anthology Publisher: Harper Voyager Release date: July 7

Den of Geek says: I’m always looking for a good book about dragons, and this incredible list of authors promises adventurous and unique stories. Anne Leckie, Zen Cho, Seanan Maguire, J.Y. Yang, Patricia A McKillip, Brooke Bolander … it’s an astounding, literary-flavored list of people qualified to write cool creatures.

Publisher’s summary: Here there be dragons . . .

From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations.

Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today— Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Ann Leckie & Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Beth Cato, Zen Cho, C. S. E Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Seanan Maguire, Patricia A McKillip, K. J. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, and J. Y. Yang—and illustrated by award-nominated artist Rovina Cai with black-and-white line drawings specific to each entry throughout, this extraordinary collection vividly breathes fire and life into one of our most captivating and feared magical creatures as never before and is sure to become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales.

Buy The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan on Amazon

Or What You Will by Joe Walton

Type: Novel Publisher: Tor Books Release date: July 7

Den of Geek says: Jo Walton is a writer’s writer, highly praised but still generally skating under the radar. I found her 2014 My Real Children to not nearly live up to its very high concept, but she’s one of those authors with technical prowess who is at least worth checking out for context for women’s science fiction. The metafiction plot sounds fun.

Publisher’s summary: He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god.

But “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years.

But Sylvia won’t live forever, any more than any human does. And he’s trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he.

Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he’s got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her.

Buy Or What You Will by Jo Walton on Amazon

The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal

Type: Graphic Novel Publisher: First Second Release date: July 14

Den of Geek says: The Adventure Zone is a wildly popular humorous fantasy podcast. It’s part of the big 2010s wave of Dungeons & Dragons coming back into the geek space. Especially for someone who might not want to listen to hundreds of episodes of a podcast, the illustrated version does a good job of smoothing out the story into a graphic novel format without removing the goofy chaos of the original podcast.

Publisher’s summary: START YOUR ENGINES, friends, Clint McElroy and sons Griffin, Justin, and Travis hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved agents of chaos from the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novels illustrated by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins and The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited.

Our boys have gone full-time at the Bureau of Balance, and their next assignment is a real thorny one: apprehending The Raven, a master thief who’s tapped into the power of a Grand Relic to ransack the city of Goldcliff. Local life-saver Lieutenant Hurley pulls them out of the woods, only to throw them headlong into the world of battle wagon racing, Goldcliff’s favorite high-stakes low-legality sport and The Raven’s chosen battlefield. Will the boys and Hurley be able to reclaim the Relic and pull The Raven back from the brink, or will they get lost in the weeds?

Based on the beloved blockbuster podcast where three brothers and their dad play a tabletop RPG in real time, The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal has it all: blossoming new friendships, pining for outlaw lovers, and a rollicking race you can root for!

Buy The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal

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eijun-enjoyer · 5 years ago

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by moonybins

HAHAHA lol this is a lot to incapsulate within a summary, as you possibly tell from the amount of characters and relatioinships. But please do not worry I will cover all stops.....

These are a series of events that took place up to the date of Febuary 21, 2018. After which they were promtly and aburbtly ended without any warning. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy this sad, but also heartwarning masterpiece.

Goodnight, Moonybins

Words: 998, Chapters: 1/240, Language: English

Fandoms: SHINee, SEVENTEEN - Fandom, 九州幻想 | Jiǔ Zhou Huàn Xiǎng - Various Authors, Super Junior-M, amber - Fandom

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: SHINee Ensemble, Kim Gwiboon, Hostis Ij, Dimk, SEVENTEEN Ensemble, Nico Senvi, Amver, Minho, Amber Liu, Choi Minho, Shim Changmin, Kim Yukwon | U-Kwon, Zico, Wen Jun Hui | Jun, JEongihan, Lee Jinki | Onew, Zhou Mi, rHU Ge, Tamein, Lee Taemin, kim jongyuing, Kim Jonghyun (SHINee), Kim keydiby, Kim Taehyung | V, Kim ke bum, Kim Kibum, Kim Kibum | Key, BoA

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#taegi vsuga

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ibuproffie · 6 years ago

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six of crows by leigh bardugo basically took over my life in 2018 (sorry not sorry inej ghafa owns my entire heart). i watched all the fanvids, made a bujo spread (which i do plan to post here soon), and screamed over all the fan art. i wasn’t expecting to like it v much b/c i remember not liking the shadow and bone trilogy at all. but it’s actually v good, super diverse, interesting, and well written (which in ya fantasy is basically a godsend). and then CROOKED KINGDOM wrecked the FUCK out of me. i’m making my brother re-read the duology w me (he’s never read them before) and he likes them a lot too! we’re currently on ck, and you can find his thoughts on soc buried in my tag for the series. my favorite ship from soc would probably have to be kanej, tho wesper and nina x matthias are close fuckin seconds. honestly all the soc couples are goals and i stan. (except maybe kuwei x jesper; was not a fan of that one). if you haven’t read it (which i seriously doubt b/c apparently all of book tumblr read these for some reason) you definitely should check it out!

however, a lot of ships also had me fangirling in 2018-pynch from the raven cycle (i love adam and ronan sm-MY PRECIOUS MAGIC BEANS), omar and ander from elite + isak and even from skam (i live for these kind of unlikely coming-out ships even though i did have some serious issues w the rest of these shows), diego x henry from we are the ants (so soft, so brutal, the slowest of slow burns), aled x daniel from radio silence (yes, aled had some issues that made him not always the best boyfriend, but the way this was handled in the book gave me ALL the feels), eleanor and park from the book of the same name (i love them sm what can i say; though this book has some issues and uncomfortable moments it is really cute) tyrion and shae from game of thrones (funny b/c i remember them making me v uncomfortable in the books but PETER DINKLAGE COME ON) and of course aristide and cyril from amberlough (if lara elena donelly doesn’t give these two a happy ending she better be ready to square tf up) also i still love tain hu x baru (traitor baru cormorant, a great but underrated lesbian alternate universe novel), ben x leslie from parks and rec, and jim x pam from the office.

whew that was kind of a long-ish answer but there ya go fam :)

#ask #dan-yell #be my friend

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gecnawan · 1 year ago

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BARU CORMORANT / TAIN HU in THE MASQUERADE

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters W.S. Merwin, Separation Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Louise Glück, A Myth of Devotion Helen Oyeyemi, White Is For Witching

#the traitor baru cormorant #baru cormorant #tain hu #Baru x Tain Hu #The Masquerade

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athetos · 8 days ago

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I feel like there has been a lot of talk about Baru and Aminata getting together in book four, but have we considered the possibility of Aminata x tulpa Tain Hu?

Personally I think that if Aminata and Hu met, and Baru wasn’t in the picture, they probably wouldn’t get along. Not in a “constantly squabbling” way, but in that they’d disagree on key things and they wouldn’t go out of their way to interact.

That said,

In a world where Baru is the one thing they had in common, say if they were both dating Baru at the same time, I think they would have much more favorable feelings for each other since they both love the same person, and I could see them having a threesome that leads to them just fucking while Baru watches in glee, which is just beautiful. It works out perfectly because baru is a top, Aminata can be a bottom, and Hu is vers.

Idk how the tulpa would come into play. I think Aminata is a little too repressed atm in canon to have a fling with the tulpa ��

#baru cormorant #baruhu #barinata #barinatahu #this could be the ‘ot3’ of the century if people weren’t cowards #also my coworker walked over as I was writing thing #the masquerade #customer support

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athetos · 11 months ago

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Okay here’s the very rough outline of my baru cormorant x locked tomb crossover…. If you have suggestions let me know… Major spoilers for both book series. Also I want to clarify this isn’t going to be a very long multi-chapter thing, I’m hoping to keep this under control and have it be a collection of scenes in chronological order that cover everything. Like I’m absolutely wanting to keep this below 20k words so it doesn’t destroy me.

Taranoke is a planet destroyed and flipped by the lyctors and the cohort. One of the lyctors, Farrier, realizes baru had a spark of necromantic ability and saves her (promising to protect her parents) and sends her to a top necromantic school. Without the knowledge of the emperor (renascent) he secretly trains her when he visits and keeps an eye on her progress. She is given Muire lo as a cavalier, and becomes fast friends with Aminata, the cavalier to croftare. Throughout her studies, baru learns more and more about how the nine houses are run, and decides to overthrow them from the inside, with the ultimate goal of killing all the lyctors and the emperor, so that no more planets are flipped and the war can end. Upon graduation, baru is sent to the ninth house to become their sole necromancer, as the previous ones have all died of a deadly pox, and is told a chance to ‘ascend’ will be sent her way in due time.

There, she of course meets tain Hu, as well as oathsfire, Lyxaxu, and Unuxekome, among others. Midway through her stay, as she’s working to restore the ninth house to its former glory, Muire lo becomes ill and dies. Heartbroken, baru hides away to grieve, before being forced at last to pick a replacement cavalier. As oathsfire and some of the other dukes are all cavaliers with significant experience with their late necromancers, it’s expected she’ll choose one of them, but she instead picks Tain Hu. This is not only because she trusts her beyond any other, but also because she hopes the taboo of a necro/cav relationship will make her crush on her go away (it doesn’t, not at all.)

They of course get the invitation to Canaan house. Aminata and croftare are there, somewhat taking the role of palamedes and Camilla, and the third house is Yawa and olake. Cytherea is a member of the cancrioth, haven’t settled on one in particular. Things go much as they did in GTN, except Yawa is also forced to eat olake’s soul, not willingly, which devastates her. Plus, croftare dies without a plan like palamedes did, but Aminata survives. Baru has solved the lyctor theorem, has at a point probably known for a while and just repressed it, but comes up with a desperate and wild gambit. Meanwhile, When Hu sacrifices herself, Baru tells her she has a plan, and will see her soon. After defeating the rogue lyctor, baru writes the letters to her future self, and ropes Yawa into helping her do brain surgery, with Yawa firmly on her side in contrast to ianthe, as she also wants revenge for being forced to use up her brother.

The lyctors are farrier (cav unknown), hesychast (with iscend as his cav, who takes over his body occasionally like Pyrrha did to g1deon), svirakir (iraji was his cav), yawa and her cav, and tain shir (unknown cav). Baru feels a massive headache when she sees shir, and to a lesser extent, yawa. Shir tries to kill baru, but not because she’s told to by the emperor, but for revenge since she knows baru consumed her cousin’s soul, which confuses baru because she has no idea why shir is doing what she’s doing. Nobody else tells her why, just is cryptic about it thinking she’s insane, and yawa can’t tell her without compromising the plan. Instead of Camilla meeting her on one of the planets, Aminata meets her and Yawa instead, as she was given instructions to by baru, who thought of everything even if she can’t remember it. She took Hu’s body from Canaan house, and upon seeing it baru remembers everything. With yawa’s help, they heal Hu’s body with lyctor powers and insert Hu’s soul. This gives their souls a connection where baru can use some lyctor abilities while Hu can do her own thing, and they have telepathy across even large distances, and Hu can use some of Baru’s necromantic stuff, too.

Yawa had managed to get a blood sample from the emperor, and gives it to Hu and Aminata. While baru and Yawa continue to deceive the emperor, Aminata and Hu travel to the ninth house and use her newfound connection with baru and the vial of blood to break into the locked tomb. With telepathy, they coordinate the perfect moment, when the emperor is vulnerable from a resurrection beast attack, to unseal the Body. As the beast and the Body attack renascent at the same time, they are forced into the stoma and banished. The resurrection beasts pass on, now that their revenge is sated, and farrier is killed in the process. Shir of course is now on their side, and iscend takes permanent control over hesychast, and svirakir disappears. The nine houses as they know it is completely toppled, the secret to lyctorhood is kept hidden forever, and they work to help everyone heal and eventually thrive without their influence. They try to return life to Taranoke, and the what was the ninth house is restored to its former glory. Baru, Hu, and Aminata are in a polycule. The end <3

#I’m going nuts…#my writing #saving here so I can refer to this when I actually start writing it #tlt #baru cormorant #tlt spoilers #baru cormorant spoilers #baruposting

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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