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The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology collects 21 tales from that nomination list, totaling almost 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from near future android stories to steampunk heists, too-plausible dystopias to contemporary vampire stories. There is something here for everyone.

Discover the destiny of the Craft in Dead Country, the standalone entry point to Max Gladstone's beloved fantasy epic. BOOK ONE OF THE CRAFT WARS SERIES

"Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick Rothfuss Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world. A god has died, and it's up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropolis's steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara's job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who's having an understandable crisis of faith. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb's courts?and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb's slim hope of survival. Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society. For more from Max Gladstone, check out: The Craft Sequence Three Parts Dead Two Serpents Rise Full Fathom Five Last First Snow Four Roads Cross

* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.

From the co-author of the bestselling This Is How You Lose the Time War. Gaiman's American Gods meets King's The Dark Tower in this electric, captivating road trip across America and alternate realities to stop the apocalypse, from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.

American Gods meets The Amber Chronicles: A hitchhiker wizard gathers her estranged friends to defend the world from her long lost lover--and the monsters that return with her. Imagine that the American highway system is a vast magical network binding city to city. By soaking up magic from intentionally directionless travel, initiates can slip into alternate realities. Stray too far from our America, though, and things get weird. And dangerous. And terrifying. When visionary mathematician Zelda Qiang was in college, she learned how to travel from one alternate reality to another. Her response was to take her friends on a road trip to strange new worlds. Six of them set out. Only five returned. Zelda's lover, Sal, betrayed them: she walked into the jags--sharp cutting shadows like cracks in space--and didn't come back. Now Zelda still walks the road alone, a wandering magus keeping the jags from breaking through. But now Sal is coming back--with Dark Things in tow.

Originally released as an e-serial, this book offers a unique reading experience that unfolds in episodic segments, allowing for suspense and engagement with the characters and plot. The format encourages readers to anticipate each new installment, creating a dynamic connection to the storyline. The narrative likely explores themes relevant to contemporary audiences, making it a fresh addition to the literary landscape.

Gods and lawyers battle for the soul of the world in the action-packed second volume of Max Gladstone's Craft Wars, an epic fantasy like no other. A deadly force has been unleashed into the world. With apocalypse on the horizon, a girl and a god have joined in order to turn back the coming end. Young, brash, and desperate, they are willing to destroy anything and everything that stands between them and their goals. The structures of the Craft are theirs to overturn, with billions of lives in the balance. And it is all Tara Abernathy's fault. The battle for the world of the Craft is heating up. A dead god will rise. A mountain will fall. Ancient fire will be stolen. And while Tara races to stop Dawn's plans, the end draws ever closer, skittering across the stars to swallow the world. The Craft Wars enter their second stage in Wicked Problems.

Vierzig Jahre nach den Götterkriegen trägt die Stadt Dresediel Lex weiterhin die Narben der Befreiung – vor allem in einem Armenviertel, das noch immer unter den maroden Edikten der gefallenen Götter steht. Solange die göttlichen Schutzwälle bestehen, wird jede Entwicklung im Keim erstickt – sollten sie hingegen versagen, werden Dämonen auf die Stadt losgelassen. Elayne Kevarian von der Kunstwirkerfirma Kelethres, Albrecht und Ao wird mit der Reparatur der Schutzwälle beauftragt, aber die Bewohner haben ihre eigenen Vorstellungen. Protest regt sich gegen Elaynes Arbeit, angeführt von Temoc, einem Krieger-Priester, der nichts weiter als eine friedliche Zukunft für seine Stadt wünscht. Elayne und Temoc müssen sich zusammenraufen und gegen Verschwörungen, dunkle Magie und ihre eigenen Dämonen ankämpfen, um den Frieden und so viele Menschen wie möglich zu retten. Band 4 der Kunstwirker-Chronik Überblick über die Kunstwirker-Chronik Band 1: Drei Viertel tot Band 2: Zwei Schlangen lauern Band 3: Fünf Faden tief Band 4: Letzter erster Schnee Band 5: Vier Wege kreuzen Band 6: Fall der Engel

Auf der Insel Kavekana konstruiert Priesterin Kai als Geschäftsmodell sozusagen Götter auf Bestellung. Und ihre Kreationen eignen sich perfekt für die Arbeit der Kunstwirker und Kunstwirkerinnen der Alten Welt. Jenseits des Ozeans gedeihen hingegen immer noch echte Gottheiten, unberührt von den Götterkriegen, die die Stadtstaaten Alt Coulumb und Dresediel Lex nachhaltig verändert haben. Bei dem Versuch, den sterbenden Gott eines Freundes zu retten, wird Kai schwer verletzt und aus dem Geschäft ausgeschlossen, da ihr selbstmörderischer Rettungsversuch als Beweis für ihre geistige Instabilität gewertet wird. Als die in Ungnade gefallene Priesterin versucht, die Ursache für den Tod des Gottes zu ergründen, prallt sie gegen eine Wand aus Schweigen und Verschwörung, an der sie zu zerbrechen droht. Es sei denn, sie reißt sie ein. Band 3 der Kunstwirker-Chronik Überblick über die Kunstwirker-Chronik Band 1: Drei Viertel tot Band 2: Zwei Schlangen lauern Band 3: Fünf Faden tief Band 4: Letzter erster Schnee Band 5: Vier Wege kreuzen Band 6: Fall der Engel