by Matt Weber
(https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/the-actuator-fractured-earth/)
The Actuator, a machine capable of literally changing reality, was created to make the world into a utopian paradise. Before it happened, a saboteur used it to transform the world into patches of every kind of genre fiction. Everyone alive found their lives radically altered and struggling against aliens, pirates, orcs, vampires and every imaginable creature. Many died. Only a handful of people on the planet, called Machine Monks, even knew why it happened or how. Now they have to put it all back before humanity is destroyed.
The Lure of Fools, by Jason King
(https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/lure-of-fools/)
“Adventure is the lure of fools” Jekaran’s uncle has warned him, but that doesn’t stop the bored farm boy from rescuing a beautiful fey woman and bonding a magical sword that transforms him into master swordsman. But his uncle’s admonition proves all too true when Jek’s actions plunge him into a quest to avert a war of extermination, and the magic sword he wields begins to exert a will of its own.
The Walls of Dalgorod, by Benjamin Sperduto
(https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/dalgorod/)
The harsh, freezing steppes of Rostogov stand on the brink of civil war. When an assassination attempt leaves Serafima Vladekovna, ruler of the ancient city of Dalgorod, trapped in a timeless netherworld, her ambitious cousins race to claim the throne for themselves, no matter the cost. As the freezing winter draws nearer, the fate of Rostogov rests in the hands of Gerasim Makarovich, an inexperienced soldier who has taken command of Serafima’s battered army in a desperate attempt to defend the walls of Dalgorod.
Broken Forest, by Eliza Tilton
(https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/broken-forest/)
A seventeen-year-old boy goes on a desperate quest to rescue his kidnapped sister who’s been taken to a mystical place thought only to exist in fables, but the closer he comes to finding her, the harder she falls for her enigmatic captor—and he has plans to doom them all.
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The five staircases linking the Resting Place Between Heaven and Earth Pavilion were at that time named for the Five Disasters: Avalanche, Flood, Plague, Storm, and Wildfire. It perhaps insults the reader’s historical education to point out that they were not named for the martyrs of the Daughters’ War until after the reconstruction of the Pavilion, subsequent to the reestablishment of Rassha as the seat of governance in Uä. The politically problematic nature of this particular onomastics had attracted the attention of radical agitators since well before the births of Tenshing or Datang, or of their fathers or grandfathers, but it must be borne in mind that mainstream thought at the time found it unobjectionable to link royalty to the commonalty only via disaster.
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My colleague, the Thousand Arm Deity, informs me that the male term was applied to both genders until after the Daughters’ War, at which time the neuter “citizen” was briefly au courant. Soon thereafter, the fashion for marking the status of one’s social inferiors faded entirely, a fact mistaken by a cohort of impatient idealists for the disparition of social hierarchy itself. For our part, we are optimistic that such a phenomenon will someday occur—when the penultimate soul to achieve enlightenment has finally slipped the chains of life and death, and the final soul finds itself embodied solo on the earth, no one to dominate or be dominated by. And not before.
Appetizer:
Book Cover
Title Page
Map
Preface
Main Course:
Prologue
Part I
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Interlude
Part II
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Interlude
Part III
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Epilogue
Dessert:
The Deeds of the Kings
Dramatis Personae
A Taste of The Gale-Razed Rose
Closing
About the Author
Copyright & Publisher
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