Ai Jiang

From a rising-star author, winner of both the Bram Stoker and Nebula Awards, comes a richly inventive, brutal, and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression, and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang's The Black Tides of Heaven, and Kritika...

Natural Engines - A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang tells the compelling story of Liu Lufeng, the eldest princess of the Feng royalty. Bound by duty and tradition, she is destined to become the next bride of the human king. With their bark faces, arms of braided branches, and hair of needle threads, the Feng people are deeply...

Fleeing from the Palace and crashing into the waters below its steep walls, Lufeng and her siblings reach Gear, with its huge deadly water wheels, where their sister Sangshu is waiting for them. In the chaos of the enormous waves, within moments they're snatched away and taken into rebel territory, where they learn more of the deadly experiments Zinc has...

Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin. From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in...

Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human. - Samit Basu, author of Turbulence ★ Finalist - Hugo Award for Best Novelette ★ Finalist - Nebula Award for Novelette - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association ★ Finalist - Locus Award for Novelette If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations... would...