Zen Cho. Ace, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-28337-0
Set in the excruciatingly class-conscious realm of an alternate 19th-century England, Cho’s delightful debut novel skillfully blends fantasy and intrigue with issues of race and gender politics. Zacharias Wythe, the child of enslaved Africans, has...
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Zen Cho. Ace, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-28341-7
Cho returns to the alternate 19th-century England of Sorcerer to the Crown with a standalone tale full of delightful characters and devious plots. Sisters Sakti and Muna wake on the island of Janda Baik with no memories. Mak Genggang, a powerful...
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Zen Cho. Tor.com, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-250-26925-6
With this whimsical fantasy novella, Hugo Award–winner Cho (The True Queen) delivers a wuxia-tinged tale of banditry and brotherhood. After a group of bandits save Guet Imm, a young nun of the Pure Moon Order, from harassment, she joins them and...
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Zen Cho. Ace, $17 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-28343-1
A young woman confronts a formidable god in this stirring paranormal fantasy from Cho (Sorcerer to the Crown). Jessamyn Teoh, an unemployed, recent college graduate, moves back to Malaysia with her parents. While coping with being uprooted from her...
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Zen Cho. Bramble, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-33039-0
Hugo Award winner Cho (Black Water Sister) detours from fantasy and sci-fi with this soapy contemporary romance. Renee Goh is the black sheep of her über-successful family whose business, Chahaya Group, “own[s] half of Singapore.” She’s made her own
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Zen Cho. Bramble, $18.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-33047-5
Cho (The Friend Zone Experiment) charms in this sparkling tale of contentious coworkers discovering unexpected love. Londoner Kriya Rajasekar believes she and fellow lawyer Charles Goh are “bound together by an evil fate.” He’s been there to witness
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Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Solaris, $18.99 trade paper (420p) ISBN 978-1-78618-509-9
The 16 stories in this star-studded anthology, all but two original to this volume, inventively explore the science fictional possibilities of the time-travel romance. Strahan (The Book of Dragons) assembles a stellar lineup of talents who work...
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