A man was loitering outside the bookshop.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
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Anything at the mercy of such a divine female must, to them, necessarily be a man.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
The fat-sailed high-prowed Taryam’ajak of Antai bit salt swells, singing of rigging and canvas strained by pressure, bound for home across the wide blue desert of the Lan’ai.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
Tak! quoted Steelflower by Lilith Saintcrow (The Steelflower Chronicles, #1)
Thief, assassin, sellsword—Kaia Steelflower is famous. Well, mostly famous, and mostly for the wrong reasons. …
I woke from a fuzzy trance with my mead-filled head ringing and four Hain Guards seeking to separate said head from my shoulders.
— Steelflower by Lilith Saintcrow (The Steelflower Chronicles, #1)
Tak! quoted Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove …
Nobody ever believed murders “just happened” around Mallory Viridian.
— Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
Tak! quoted The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
The walls of the estate emerged from the morning fog before me, long and dark and rounded like the skin of some beached sea creature.
— The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Tak! quoted Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of …
In the early sun-swept hours of the morning, when purples and pinks smeared across the sky like blood, Firuz-e Jafari looked for a job.
Tak! quoted The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
Humans often say that they are made of stardust.
Tak! quoted Siren Queen
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no …
Wolfe Studios released a tarot deck’s worth of stories about me over the years.
Tak! quoted The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong …
Every morning just after dawn, Lin Chong taught a fight class for women.
Tak! quoted Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #2)
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a …
It was much, much worse at night.
— Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #2)
Tak! quoted City of Pearl by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #1)
Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the …
The bot was immune to the snow, and so was Aras.
— City of Pearl by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #1)
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton’s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the boy was the only one in the house left alive.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (duplicate)
Tak! quoted At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)
Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, …
The bells of the Palace of Stars were barely audible outside its walls.
— At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)
Just realized I forgot #OpeningSentence
Tak! quoted How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
In Siberia, the thawing ground was a ceiling on the verge of collapse, sodden with ice melt and the mammoth detritus of prehistory.