…as a warrant on my head. Before I left for He Chan-Li’s house, I started a search on my computer, feeding it the names of He Chan-Li and of the fiance. It was not an entirely legal search, since the program would trawl through administrative records as well as on the network; with luck, I should have some results by the time I came back. *** He Chan-Li’s house was in the richer suburbs of Fenliu. I took the mag-lev train from my shabby building, t…

…vel, The House of Shattered Wings, out now from Roc (US), and Gollancz (UK/Commonwealth). Download First Three Chapters (MOBI/Kindle) Other formats: EPUB | PDF Read Chapter One! Read excerpt from Chapter Three! Read excerpt from Chapter Four! Where to Buy Hardback (US) Penguin Random House Amazon US Barnes and Noble US Indie Stores The Book Depository Trade Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones Blackwell’s WH Smith The Book Depository Ebook/Audio…

…or you can download the MOBI file directly below if you can’t find it for free in your part of the world. Download Now: EPUB | MOBI. Download from retailers: Where to download Amazon US Amazon UK Smashwords Apple Barnes and Noble Download now. Or read online here. (and if you’ve read the novel and want more short fiction set in the same universe, why not check out Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship, the adventure/courtship story featuring Emmanue…

…Want to play a fun game? Leticia Lara has kindly made a Dominion of the Fallen word search puzzle–you can go look for the heads of the major Houses in the books, here. I’m offering three UK mass market paperback edition of The House of Shattered Wings if you can find them all! (if you want to actually solve the puzzle, the one at Leticia’s blog is a widget where you can highlight text)…

…n. Click here to download this sampler. (if for some reason you don’t feel comfortable with the .zip, you can access the individual pdfs by clicking from the table of contents below) If you’re a voting member of Anticipation, and see anything in my bibliography you’d like to check out, why don’t you send me a mail? Information about voting for the Campbell here. The nomination ballot isn’t yet available; I’ll update the website when it is. Content…

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…ven’t quite got the hang of doing short stories on this unless I’m feeling really really motivated (basically it’s a bit of an effort to download a file to it, and I just always feel too lazy to do it for short fiction). Black Wolves, Kate Elliott. This is easily the best book I read in 2015. It’s thick, and it’s a sequel to Elliott’s Crossroads trilogy (which I hadn’t read, and I confirm you don’t need to have read it). Captain Kellas left the pa…

…ays of the internet… For ebooks, selling rights by country feels outdated, real fast (not to mention really annoying. I’ve never been so sorely tempted to pirate stuff). Rights by language would be smarter, but I’m sure it’s a lot easier to say than to iron out legally speaking. Whatever the case, I sure hope this can be sorted out in a smart way (ie, not the way they sorted out the DVDs, which leaves me unable to get English subtitles for Japanes…

…tarted expanding into Malaysia and Singapore, and their electronics are CE-certified. See below for why this matters) The biggest pro by far is freeing space on the stove–it might not look like much, but so many Asian dishes require cooking ingredients separately, and the four spots on the stove can get crowded very fast–especially if one of them is a huge wok, which tends to eat into the space of the other spots… Second obvious pro: cooking rice…

…bedded in his heart had seen to that. I had knelt, collected the scattered materials for the ritual he would never complete, said the prayers for his soul. I had not wept. Tears would have been useless. But I had not forgiven the Wind of Knives. Ceyaxochitl’s eyes focused on me, and they sparkled with something like amusement. “You will not use that against me,” I said, softly. “Why not?” she said, and paused. “But you are right. Let us put petty…