Carnival

10 best books like Carnival (Elizabeth Bear): The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, Just One Damned Thing After Another, This Is How You Lose the Time War, The Outside, Gideon the Ninth, Desdemona and the Deep, The Choice of Magic, The Last Astronaut, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ink

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
AuthorAlexis Hall
In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters.

Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere...
Just One Damned Thing After Another
AuthorJodi Taylor
"History is just one damned thing after another."

Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of...
This Is How You Lose the Time War
AuthorAmal El-Mohtar
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

And thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield...
The Outside
AuthorAda Hoffmann
ISBN0857668145
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their...
Gideon the Ninth
AuthorTamsyn Muir
ISBN1250313198
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
Desdemona and the Deep
AuthorC.S.E. Cooney
In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of...
The Choice of Magic
AuthorMichael G. Manning
The ancient magic of wizards was anything but dark. It was the enlightenment that lifted humanity from the squalor of superstition, and the worship of fell spirits and capricious gods, but those days are gone. The shining glory of the sorcerers burned away the subtlety of wisdom, replacing it with easy...
The Last Astronaut
AuthorDavid Wellington
ISBN0356512290
Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.

Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission to...
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN1534413472
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...
AuthorHal Duncan
ISBN0345487338
It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to...
The Body Lies
AuthorJo Baker
A layered and thrilling suspense novel that grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.


When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big...
Warrior Fae Trapped
AuthorK.F. Breene
The truce between the vampires and the shifters is long over. So when the two factions stumble upon a lost fae warrior who has no idea what she is, all hell breaks loose.

Charity hasn't had it easy. Growing up in a bad part of Chicago, left by her mother at 16, she's a survivor. So when she gets a scholarship...
The Last Dance
AuthorMartin L. Shoemaker
ISBN1542004314
At the heart of a mystery unfolding in space, the opposing forces make a treacherous journey between Earth and Mars.

In space, mutiny means death—that’s why Inspector General Park Yerim is taking her investigation so seriously. The alleged mutineer is Captain Nicolau Aames, whose command...
L'invincible forteresse
AuthorGeorge R.R. Martin
ISBN2290319953
Le dénouement est proche. Car il ne reste que deux prétendants au trône des Sept Couronnes : Joffrey, le héraut du clan des Lannister, retranché à Port-Réal, et Stannis Baratheon, qui a masse ses navires aux abords de la capitale en vue de l'assaut final. Celui qui s'en rendra maître deviendra...
The Last Vessel
AuthorWinter Rose
I thought that the hardest thing I would have to face this year would be Trial Month.

Gods, I was naïve.

My name is Luna Moon. Don’t ask me what I am, because complicated doesn’t even begin to cut it. I recently found out that
everything I knew to be true has been a lie.

Including...
De thuiskomst: Het Rijk van de Ouderlingen
AuthorRobin Hobb
ISBN9024553482
In 2005 is Robin Hobb, tien jaar na haar Nederlandse debuut De boeken van de Zieners, onbetwist de populairste strijfster van oorspronkelijke fantasy-romans.
In het kader van dit tienjarig schrijversjubileum is De thuiskomst verschenen.
De thuiskomst is een mini-roman die, naast een...
Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince
AuthorV.E. Schwab
ISBN1785865870
Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab and torn from the universe of the Shades of Magic sequence, this all-original comic book prequel to A Darker Shade of Magic is perfect for fans of bloody, swashbuckling adventure and gritty fantasy!

Delve into the thrilling, epic...
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