For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken…and some monsters cannot be chained. Uduak IX may have ordered an assassin to gut his niece in a holy monastery, but he is still a man of honor. As emperor of Johari IX, the greatest human-ruled planet … Read more
[ad_1] Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships, and planets in its path, but also consumes their greatest arts, somehow scratching them from existence everywhere… The Coalition highship’s face changed its name from grace under gunfire to counting casualties when our fleet … Read more
[ad_1] While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa’s fish becoming something else? Anissa touches the small round bone sprouting from the fish’s back. The fish is a small, electric blue acara, with black eyes. It’s cute but it’s only a fish. Anissa feeds pellets to the fish as … Read more
[ad_1] We’re delighted to share “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from Chinese by Judy Yi Zhou, reprinted from the groundbreaking anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang, now available in paperback! “The Stars We Raised” was originally published as 逃跑星辰 in March 2017 … Read more
[ad_1] A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t be contained by frames… Author’s note: This story contains fictional depictions of suicide and mention of harm to children. There was nothing remarkable about the photograph, no reason it should be the first to catch my … Read more
[ad_1] We are thrilled to reprint “The Way Spring Arrives” by Wang Nuonuo, the title story in the groundbreaking anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang, now out in paperback! “The Way Spring Arrives” first appeared as 春天来临的方式 in 2019 in No Answers from Earth（地球无应答) by … Read more
[ad_1] A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never existed. Only in the hallway mirror is she able to see a glimpse of the reality she remembers having lived—the reality she wants back. Content warning for fictional depictions of childhood death and … Read more
[ad_1] Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, recording their lives and passing them on. Then, one day, he breaks: he discovers a chunk of his memory is missing. This should be impossible—he’s never forgotten a moment in his life. Now, he has to learn to forget, and … Read more
[ad_1] When an alien entity sneaks aboard a corporate spaceship, with no motive besides sabotaging the mission and murdering those aboard, commander Uzoma Ifiok launches an investigation—despite knowing that the real danger isn’t the one picking off her crew. From my place at the center of The Preserver’s spacious bridge, I watched a world … Read more
[ad_1] Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy. From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story … Read more