Thirty years ago, the world ended. Giant electrovoric ants and pterodons came through a rift in space-time, millions of humans died, and that was that. Thirty years later, humanity has rebuilt . . . to an extent. Human ingenuity has provided some creative solutions to life without electricity, but most folks survive at the subsistence level, farming to keep themselves and their families fed. Into this world come a lifelong cowboy, a mystic warrior monk, a beautiful dragon tamer, a runaway cultist, and a mysterious drunken lecher—all searching for the key to reclaiming humanity’s future and past.

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On the way to his betrothal young Lord Penric happens upon a riding accident and stops to help. But the victim is no ordinary woman. She is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season." As she lies dying, she passes her strange powers to Penric . . . and changes the course of his life forever. Follow Penric on his journey from noble young lord to sorcerer and scholar in the Bastard's Order. Contains the novellas Penric’s Demon, Penric and the Shaman, and Penric’s Fox.

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About to embark on NASA’s first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission that began before most of them were even born, and the Kremlin believes it drove their most trusted crew mad. During their long race to the Kuiper Belt, astronauts Jack Templeton and Traci Keene unwind a decades-old mystery buried in the pages of a dead cosmonaut’s journal. Challenging their own beliefs about the nature of humanity, they will soon confront the question of existence itself.

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The Eggers family have fallen on hard times, like so many during the Depression. Their farm blown away in the Dust Bowl, they’re making their way to a relative’s apple orchard in Washington, in the hopes of finding work there. For now, they’re camped out on a corner of Hiram Woolley’s beet farm in Utah. But something more sinister haunts the Eggers family, and when baby Cecil goes missing one day, they’ll need more than a place to camp and a basket of beets from Hiram. Good thing Hiram is a Cunning Man. He’s not unacquainted with the supernatural—and he’s determined to help the Eggers family find their missing boy.

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Wil McCarthy discusses wonder-inducing SF time travel novel Antediluvian. Mercedes Lackey tours her new novel with Rosemary Edghill, The Waters and the Wild. And a Den of Davids discusses SF/fantasy anthology The Chronicles of Davids and the secret of accurate stone-throwing. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

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