October Books and Cover Reveals for Nghi Vo and Seanan McGuire!

To view this email as a webpage, go [here.]( [Tor.com Publishing]( [Forward to a Friend]( New Tordotcom Books Published in October [The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu]( [The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport]( Samit Basu From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure with heart that reads like a mash-up of “Aladdin” and Murderbot—with gloriously chaotic results. Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren’t helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born. Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance to leave this dead-end planet and explore the universe on his own terms. But that would mean abandoning the family he loves—even if they do take him for granted. When Shantiport’s resident tech billionaire coerces Lina into retrieving a powerful artifact rumored to be able to reshape reality, forces from before their time begin coalescing around the siblings. And when you throw in a piece of sentient, off-world tech with the ability to grant three wishes into the mix… None of the city’s powers will know what hit them. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [Apple Books]( [Under the Smokestrewn Sky by A. Deborah Baker]( [Under the Smokestrewn Sky]( A. Deborah Baker Under the Smokestrewn Sky is the series finale of the 4-book Up-and-Under series, written by bestselling author Seanan McGuire under the open pseudonym A. Deborah Baker. Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies, finding friends in the unlikeliest of places and enemies great in number, as they make their way toward the Impossible City in the hope of finding their way home. But the final part of their journey is filled with danger and demise. Not everyone will make it through unscathed. Not everyone will make it through alive. The final part of the enchanting Up-and-Under quartet reminds us of the value of friendship and the price one sometimes pays for straying from the path. No-one’s safety can be guaranteed under the smokestrewn sky. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [Apple Books]( [A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather]( [A Season of Monstrous Conceptions]( Lina Rather Lina Rather’s A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence. In 17th-century London, unnatural babies are being born, with eyes made for the dark and webbed digits suited to the sea. Sarah Davis is intimately familiar with such strangeness—having hidden her uncanny nature all her life and fled to London under suspicious circumstances, Sarah starts over as a midwife’s apprentice to a member of the illegal Worshipful Company of Midwives, hoping to carve out for herself an independent life. But with each new unnatural birth, the fear in London grows of the Devil’s work. When the wealthy Lady Wren hires her to see her through her pregnancy, Sarah quickly becomes a favorite of her husband, the famous architect Lord Christopher Wren, whose interest in the uncanny borders on obsession. Sarah soon finds herself caught in a web of magic and intrigue created by those who want to use her power for themselves, and whose pursuits threaten to unmake the earth itself. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( [Apple Books]( Now in Paperback! [A Restless Truth by Freya Marske]( [A Restless Truth]( Freya Marske Now an International Bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick​, an Indie Next pick, a Bookpage Best Book of the Year, and a LibraryReads pick—with three starred reviews! A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light. Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as an old lady’s companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago. What she didn’t expect was for the old lady in question to turn up dead on the first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham, who’s also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet can’t help but desire: a magician, an actress, and a magnet for scandal. Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must first drop the masks that they’ve both learned to wear before they can unmask a murderer and somehow get their hands on a magical object worth killing for—without ending up dead in the water themselves. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Bookshop]( [Books-A-Million]( Cover Reveals [ARCHANGELS OF FUNK by Andrea Hairston]( We are thrilled to share the cover of [ARCHANGELS OF FUNK by Andrea Hairston]( Octavia Butler meets Neil Gaiman in a tale about running from your past and hiding from your future. The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disruptors and the Nostalgia Militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet lords troll the internet solidifying their power, while Cinnamon her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs, work with a community of Farmers, Motor Fairies and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, healthcare and education for flood refugees. Slipping into periodic despair, Cinnamon’s been hiding out. She’s ready to ditch the Next World Festival she runs—a sci-fi carnival jam featuring music, dance, masked revelers, drum circles and storytellers in a grassy amphitheater on the farm she inherited. Her elders haunt her, insisting she do the Festival no matter what. As she confronts threats to the life she’s attempting to live from the Darknet Lords and the Nostalgia Militia, Cinnamon must determine how best to honor her elders and her history, while building a future for herself and her charges. It’s not going to be easy. [SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky]( We are also beyond excited to share the cover of [SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky]( the first of two new novels from the author! To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: they can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. [RAKESFALL by Vajra Chandrasekera]( We are also thrilled to share the cover of [RAKESFALL by Vajra Chandrasekera]( A standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time. “Which body am I, the hare or the worm? I am both at once. It’s all right, we’ll carry each other. We’ll take turns being an I.” Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met after the war, but before the peace. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they’ll never leave each other behind. But their journey will not be easy. In every lifetime, oppressors narrow the walls of possibility, shaping reality to fit their own needs. And behind the walls of history, the witches of the red web swear that every throne will fall. Tracing two souls through endless lifetimes, Rakesfall is a virtuosic exploration of what stories can be. As Annelid and Leveret reincarnate ever deeper into the future, they will chase the edge of human possibility, in a dark science fiction epic unlike anything you’ve read before. [TIDAL CREATURES by Seanan McGuire]( We are also beyond excited to share the cover of [TIDAL CREATURES by Seanan McGuire]( the next in the Alchemical Journeys series, and announce that there will be two more novels in the series after it! Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City… All across the world, people look up at the moon and dream of gods. Gods of knowledge and wisdom, gods of tides and longevity. Over time, some of these moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City—the heart of all creation—to keep it connected to reality. And someone is killing them. There are so many of them that it's easy for a few disappearances to slip through the cracks. But they aren't limitless. In the name of the moon, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal of those behind these attacks—control of the Impossible City itself. [THE BRIDES OF HIGH HILL by Nghi Vo]( We are delighted to share the cover of [THE BRIDES OF HIGH HILL by Nghi Vo]( the next standalone installment of the Singing Hills Cycle, which returns with a gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn! The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride’s party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord’s mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls. As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards, they are drawn into the mystery of what became of Lord Guo’s previous wives and the dark history of Do Cao itself. But as the wedding night draws to its close, Chih will learn at their peril that not all monsters are to be found in the shadows; some monsters hide in plain sight. In addition to this foxy cover, we are thrilled to announce that we have acquired three new standalone novellas in the Singing Hills Cycle! THE LAST BINDING TRILOGY SWEEPSTAKES ENDING SOON! [The Last Binding Trilogy Sweepstakes]( [Enter for the chance to win]( a complete hardcover set of the Last Binding trilogy, all copies signed by the author, and a set of three 10" x 14" art prints! One grand prize winner will be chosen, while fifty runners-up will receive a set of three 6" x 9" postcard prints. Enter by 11/6. Follow Tor.com Publishing [f]( [t]( [g]( [t]( This email was sent by: Macmillan 120 Broadway New York, NY, 10271, US We respect your right to privacy - [view our policy]( Macmillan believes piracy hurts writers, readers and everyone who loves books. Learn more and report suspicious activity [here.]( To subscribe to this or other email communications from Macmillan, please click [here](. Visit our [profile center]( to update your email address and/or other information. 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