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It's My Birthday, So You Get a New Book Post:

Books mentioned in previous posts are shipping today, including Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho and Updraft by Fran Wilde

* Not So Invisible Ninjas by Fran Wilde
Or: Recent and Upcoming Debuts in Fantasy and Science Fiction... that just happen to be written by women.

* Tor.com: Do Not Touch by Prudence Shen
This is a free short story, absolutely awesome.

* Twelve Kings in Sharakhai: The Song of Shattered Sands: Book One
by Bradley P. Beaulieu
Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings -- cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite ompany of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule.

* Deep Water by Nicola Cameron
Poseidon, God of the Sea, has spent millennia alone due to a single terrible act. His consort, Amphitrite, has sworn never to forgive him, and he’s forced to live with the knowledge that he drove an innocent girl to her doom.

* Chapelwood by Cherie Priest
Birmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace. A murderer, unimaginatively named “Harry the Hacker” by the press, has been carving up citizens with a hatchet. And from the church known as Chapelwood, an unholy gospel is being spread by a sect that worships dark gods from beyond the heavens.

* Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

* Avatars Dance by Laura J. Mixon
This is the omnibus edition of the complete trilogy: GLASS HOUSES, PROXIES, and BURNING THE ICE.

* Uncanny Magazine, Issue 6
Featuring all–new short fiction by Paul Cornell, Isabel Yap, Liz Argall, Kenneth Schneyer, and Keffy R. M. Kehrli, classic fiction by N.K. Jemisin, nonfiction by Diana M. Pho, Steven H Silver, Michi Trota, and David J. Schwartz, poems by Rose Lemberg, Dominik Parisien, Amal El–Mohtar, and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Isabel Yap, and Liz Argall and Kenneth Schneyer, and Matthew Dow Smith’s The Future Matters on the cover.