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[lastseenleaving]

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El Mohtar & Max Gladstone

“It’s amazing how much blue there is in the world if you look. You’re different colors of flame. Bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. See? I pour you into things.”

“Red rarely sleeps, but when she does, she lies still, eyes closed in the dark, and lets herself see lapis, taste iris petals and ice, hear a blue jay’s shriek. She collects blues and keeps them.”

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“It’s not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It’s that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now it’s as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood.”

[sffreads]

THE BLIGHTED STARS | THE FRACTURED DARK

When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to survive before she can uncover the conspiracy that landed them both there in the first place.

[alistairs]

Now, let my dear family watch this. Let them think on this slave who tried to turn the knife he thought poisoned and use it against me. Let them wonder how a gladiator could come into this arena ready for such an attempt. And let them always be aware they cannot know for sure which of my hands carries the poison. 

[flamestormed]

“That, for you,” he snarled. "That for my life, which you took from me. All the hours, all the days I spent upon you.”

The Farseer Trilogy left me weeping at 3AM one morning and as therapy I spent days and days creating this! So prepared for the rest of ROTE to break me further.

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[larndraws]

I drew some fanart for my favourite book series, The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. I really can’t recommend this book enough, it is so SO good.

[katadesmoi]

THE BEAUTY OF THE HOUSE IS IMMEASURABLE; ITS KINDNESS INFINITE

part of a comic that i will never finish!!!!! the thing that i loved most about this book was piranesi himself, and his sense of wonder and his deep love for the labyrinthine house he lives in <3

[jeremy-knox]

@booksociety’s author debuts event: silver in the wood by emily tesh

“At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the wood.”

[sketchydoodles]

Redrew Frith from the Copper Cat trilogy by Jen Williams <3 If you haven’t read her books, well, get on it!

[ulliell]

‘I remembered that I was supposed to be the human’s serving man, and I wondered if I was supposed to serve him breakfast, so I got up and went back to the ballroom.’ Aldasair lowered his head, looking only at the dirt. ‘I couldn’t find him. I found – other things. Later, I saw the lady who had thrown the party, and she was sitting in a corridor with her head in her hands, crying and crying. Her arms were bloody to the elbow.’ 

Bern the Younger had gone very still. 

‘Do you see what we are?’ Aldasair asked softly. ‘Do you see it, yet?’ 

The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams Book 1 in The Winnowing Flame Trilogy

[pedalingsu]

Fan art of the Broken Earth Trilogy I did months ago?

This book is so good it changed my whole SF life...

And this is my favorite scene. Still gives me chill whenever I think about it.

Such a formidable pair!

[housedemarr]

2021 Books. ⋙ A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

“Partner? Another lady Spooky Boy? Pretty like you? With a thing for suits and infidels? Should bring her by.”

[exmakina]

Drew this a while back but never posted it, oops!

Shuthmili saying something spicy and Csorwe being ??? about it.

[celiabowens]

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

[booksandtreesplease]

#34 The Poison Song by Jen Williams

The final book in the trilogy, some parts were more engaging than others but it was a satisfying conclusion to the series overall.

[prose-n-scripts]

I. Statues

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

[cyborgpotatoreads]

It's here!

Ever since the school librarian placed Eragon in my hands when I was 10 years old, I have loved Christopher Paolini. And now, at 26, I have been blessed with a brand new Paolini novel, this time in SPACE!

[oshaviolater]

Night Doctors, Night Doctors

You can cry and carry on.

But when they done dissectin’

Every bit of you is gone.

RING SHOUT, P. Djèlí Clark