Swords and Spaceships for January 19

An alien artifact falling from the sky takes everything from Fatima–even her name. The new name given to her is Sanokfa, and the Angel of Death is the one who named her. Now she searches for that alien artifact with only a fox as her companion, and anyone who gets in her way will face a girl whose simple glance can kill.

Nadezra is the city of dreams, but a corrupt nightmare has begun to weave its way through its underbelly. Ren, who left the city to save her sister and returned as a con artist to gain her revenge, finds herself at the heart of this tangled danger. If she does not save this city she returned to destroy, she’ll lose more than she can imagine.

The Arz has fallen and the battle on Sharr has ended. Though Altair has been captured, Zafira, Nasir, and Kifah are determined to finish the plan they set in motion, to return magic to Arawiya. Nasir must learn to command the magic in his blood while Zafira struggles to maintain her sanity against the bond with the Jawarat–and despite all this, they find themselves falling in love.

Hessa is a warrior priestess called an Eangi, exiled for her refusal to obey her goddess and kill a traveller. While she is exiled, her village is razed and the other Eangi are killed. Hessa has no choice but to try to win back her goddess’s favor by finishing the job she failed at–but along her journey of redemption she discovers the the gods are dying and the afterlife is fading. There is more on the line than her own life after death, and powers older than the gods are about to awaken.

The Forever Sea is a miles-high expanse of prairie grasses, sailed by harvesting vessels. The hearthfire keeper on one such vessel, Kindred, receives news that her grandmother has stepped into the Forever Sea from the railing of another ship and disappeared. But this was not an act of suicide–there’s something going on in the depths, and Kindred’s grandmother has gone to investigate. Kindred soon follows in her grandmother’s footsteps, discovering the conflicts simmering in the dark beneath the green waves–though it might cost her everything to learn.

In a future where corporations jealously guard their territory and tech over the ruins of human civilization, Tanta is an agent who has trained all her life to do InTech’s bidding. When she’s sent outside the corporate territory to retrieve a stolen hard drive, two of her team are killed and she barely makes it out alive. Determined to redeem herself, she starts an investigation that leads her to a conspiracy deep within her employer.