Books like 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.
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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.
The Curse of Chalion
Cazaril, a former courtier broken by years as a galley slave, limps home to Chalion, is made tutor to the royesse Iselle, and finds the royal house lies under a curse.
The Other Side
An artist invited to a remote 'Dream Realm' in Central Asia watches the impossible city and its exiled population collapse into entropy and violence.
Perdido Street Station
A scientist in a grotesque, steampunk metropolis built on the bones of ancient creatures accidentally unleashes a psychic horror from another dimension.
Gingerbread
Harriet Lee, whose family gingerbread recipe has a history, tells her teenage daughter about growing up in Druhástrana, a country that may not appear on any map, and the friend she lost there.
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.
Saint Death's Daughter
Lanie Stones, the youngest of a family of assassins and a necromancer who is allergic to violence, is left alone with the family's debts when her parents are murdered, and her sister comes home to settle them.
The Einstein Intersection
After alien invaders abandon Earth, the mutated humans left behind reenact the myths of Orpheus and Theseus in a transformed, hallucinatory landscape.
Nova Swing
In Saudade City, on the edge of an event site where the laws of physics have broken down, Vic Serotonin makes a living taking tourists into the site, while Detective Lens Aschemann investigates what comes out of it.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster hibernating under a manor, is hunted by a family of monster-hunters, and falls for Homily, one of them.
Red Sister
Nona Grey, a young girl about to be hanged for attacking a nobleman's son, is taken from the gallows by Abbess Glass to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where nuns train girls of rare blood to kill.
Nettle & Bone
Marra, the quiet, overlooked third princess, decides to kill the prince who has married her sisters, and sets out with a dust-wife, a disgraced knight and a dog made of bones.