Books by D J Butler and Complete Book Reviews
D.J. Butler. Baen, $25.00 (576p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8211-9
In an alternate North America where magic is pervasive and the Appalachians are under the boot of Emperor Thomas Penn, 15-year-old Sarah Calhoun, youngest daughter of imperial war hero Iron Andy Calhoun, is content with her rural Tennessee tobacco-fa
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D.J. Butler. Baen, $25 (608p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8314-8
Butler follows Witchy Eye with a satisfying second tale of a magic-filled early America. The first volume introduced 15-year-old Sarah Calhoun, who hails from the Appalachian backwoods. She discovered that she had a claim to the Serpent Throne of...
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D.J. Butler. Baen, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-982126-09-4
The detailed worldbuilding and critique of corporate imperialism in this spacefaring frontier drama from Butler (the Witchy War series) are undermined by dated, exoticizing tropes. Accountant John Abbott brings his wife and two precocious daughters...
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D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey. Baen, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-982124-16-8
An attempt at charity during the Great Depression turns into a protracted fight against supernatural forces in this admirable paranormal mystery from Butler (Witchy Kingdom) and Ritchey (Inferno Girls). In 1935 Utah, rumors of a malignant spirit in...
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D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey. Baen, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-982125-18-9
Butler and Ritchey return to Depression-era Utah for a second thrilling tale of murder and folk magic (after The Cunning Man). In 1935, Farmer Hiram Woolley and his adopted Navajo son, Michael, travel to Moab to dowse for a well. While there, they...
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D.J. Butler. Baen, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-982192-69-3
Itinerant bard Indrajit and priest-turned-fighter Fix return (after 2020’s In the Palace of Shadow and Joy) in these nine rip-roaring stories about stalking wrongdoers across the streets of Kish, a former Imperial city that’s now down on its luck....
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D.J. Butler. Baen, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9821-9313-3
Butler’s third picaresque fantasy featuring investigators Indrajit and Fix (after 2023’s Between Princesses and Other Jobs) is a high-octane romp. Indrajit, a poet whose work isn’t popular enough to pay the bills, and Fix, a former scholar-priest...
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