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In Seth Dickinson's highly-anticipated debut The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a young woman from a conquered people tries to transform an empire in this richly imagined geopolitical fantasy. Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people-even her soul. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion. Drawn by the intriguing duchess Tain Hu into a circle of seditious dukes, Baru may be able to use her position to help. As she pursues a precarious balance between the rebels and a shadowy cabal within the Empire, she orchestrates a do-or-die gambit with freedom as the prize. But the cost of winning the long game of saving her people may be far greater than Baru imagines.
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"Seth Dickinson skillfully combines intrigue, action, and philosophical musings to create a suspenseful and deeply satisfying read. An intelligent and accomplished first novel reminiscent of Le Guin in its reflections on imperialism, colonialism, and the attractions and corruptions of power."
— Una McCormack, New York Times bestselling author of The Crimson Shadow
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“Skillfully combines intrigue, action, and philosophical musings to create a suspenseful and deeply satisfying read. An intelligent and accomplished first novel reminiscent of Le Guin in its reflections on imperialism, colonialism, and the attractions and corruptions of power.”
— Una McCormack, New York Times bestselling author of The Crimson Shadow -
“A beautiful, perfectly formed crystal of a novel borne out of a tight plot mated with elegant language.”
— John Chu, Hugo Award-winning author of The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere -
“Fascinating characters, a world imagined with wonderful depth, and storytelling that succeeds on both an epic and a powerfully intimate scale. This is really something special.”
— Sunny Moraine, coauthor of Line and Orbit -
“Smart. Brutal. Gut-wrenching. You’ll be captivated from the very first page. Dickinson is a sly, masterful writer who pulls no punches. Get ready to have your heart ripped out through your throat. Highly recommended.”
— Kameron Hurley, author of The Mirror Empire -
“Smart. Brutal. Gut-wrenching. You'll be captivated from the very first page. Dickinson is a sly, masterful writer who pulls no punches. Get ready to have your heart ripped out through your throat. Highly recommended.
— Kameron Hurley, author of The Mirror Empire -
Not many books have me literally flailing with delight. The Traitor Baru Cormorant did. Fascinating characters, a world imagined with wonderful depth, and storytelling that succeeds on both an epic and a powerfully intimate scale. This is really something special.
— Sunny Moraine, co-author of Line and Orbit -
A beautiful, perfectly formed crystal of a novel borne out of a tight plot mated with elegant language.
— John Chu, Hugo Award-winning author of ‘The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" -
Dickinson has written a poet's Dune, a brutal tale of empire, rebellion, fealty, and high finance that moves like a rocket and burns twice as hot. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a mic drop for epic fantasy.
— Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence -
An extraordinary debut--powerful, complex, and passionate. I was blown away by it.
— Kij Johnson, Hugo Award-winning author of "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" -
Amazing and inventive.
— Tobias Buckell, New York Times bestselling author of the Xenowealth series -
A provocative work, the sort that makes readers wonder: just what is the author doing here?
— Locus on the short fiction of Seth Dickinson
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A 2015 Amazon Best Books of the Year Selection for Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2015
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2015
The Traitor Baru Cormorant Listener Reviews
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Brad Swift, 5/8/2016
About Seth Dickinson
Seth Dickinson’s short fiction has appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. He is an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, winner of the 2011 Dell Magazines Award, and a lapsed student of social neuroscience. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is his first novel.
About Christine Marshall
Christine Marshall is an actress, director, and designer living in Portland, Maine. She teaches for the Maine State Ballet and produces plays with her theater company, Mad Horse. In addition to audiobooks, she records the online version of the New Yorker.