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A scientist in a grotesque, steampunk metropolis built on the bones of ancient creatures accidentally unleashes a psychic horror from another dimension.
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The Shadow of the Torturer
Severian, an apprentice in the guild of torturers on a far-future, dying Earth, is exiled for showing mercy to a prisoner, and begins the journey that opens The Book of the New Sun.
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
In an alternate matriarchal Asia after a cataclysmic war, a teenage half-breed carries a monster inside her and hunts the sorceresses who made her a weapon.
Senlin Ascends
Thomas Senlin, a mild village headmaster, takes his new wife Marya on honeymoon to the Tower of Babel, a vast stack of ringdoms, loses her in the crowd on the first day, and starts to climb.
The Physiognomy
Physiognomist First Class Cley, who reads character from the shape of a face for the ruler of the Well-Built City, is sent to the mining town of Anamasobia to find who stole the white fruit of paradise.
Titus Groan
In the vast, crumbling castle of Gormenghast, bound by centuries of ritual, Titus, heir to the Earl of Groan, is born, while Steerpike, an ambitious kitchen boy, escapes the kitchens and begins to climb.
Light
In 1999 a physicist who murders people is close to a breakthrough in quantum computing, while four centuries later a woman wired into her starship and a burnt-out pilot circle the Kefahuchi Tract, where physics breaks down.
Gardens of the Moon
The Malazan Empire turns its armies on Darujhistan, the last free city of Genabackis, and Ganoes Paran, a young noble drawn into the games of the gods, is sent to command the Bridgeburners, a battered company the empress may want dead.
Borne
In a ruined city stalked by Mord, a giant flying bear, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small green creature caught in Mord's fur and takes it home, against the wishes of her partner, Wick, who deals in biotech that alters memory.
Nevernight
Mia Corvere, who watched her family destroyed by the Republic of Itreya as a child and can command shadows, joins the Red Church, a school of assassins where failing a lesson can mean death, to earn the skills for revenge.
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
In the Elder Isles, before King Arthur's day, King Casmir of Lyonesse schemes for the throne of all the islands, and shuts his daughter Suldrun in a wild garden when she refuses the marriage he arranges.
The Saint of Bright Doors
Fetter, raised by his mother to kill his father, a messianic leader, floats free of the ground unless he is tied down, and moves to the city of Luriat, full of mysterious bright doors.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Tracker, a mercenary famous for his nose, is hired to find a missing boy and joins a band of strange companions crossing an African-inspired world of rival kingdoms, witches and monsters, telling the story later to an inquisitor.