Fran Wilde

Bone Universe

1 - Updraft (Sep-2015)
2 - Cloudbound (Oct-2016)
3 - Horizon (Oct-2017)

Gem Universe

1 - The Jewel and Her Lapidary (May-2016)
2 - The Fire Opal Mechanism (Jun-2019)
3 - The Book of Gems (Jun-2023)

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  Updraft
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Fantasy
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  Bone Universe - 1
  

  Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage. Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wingtest and begin flying as a trader by her mother's side, being in service to her beloved home tower and exploring the skies beyo...

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  The Jewel and Her Lapidary
  

  • May-2016
  • / Epic Fantasy
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  Gem Universe - 1
  

  2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best NoveletteFrom Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singi...

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  Cloudbound
  

  • Oct-2016
  • / Fantasy
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  Bone Universe - 2
  

  After the dust settles, the City of living bones begins to die, and more trouble brews beneath the clouds in this stirring companion to Fran Wilde's Updraft. When Kirit Densira left her home tower for the skies, she gave up many things: her belove...

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  Talisman
  

  • Mar-2017
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  This is the 6th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Fran Wilde. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this genr...

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  Horizon
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Action Adventure
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  Bone Universe - 3
  

  A winged society faces the threat of ultimate extinction in the thrilling finale to Fran Wilde's Bone Universe fantasy series A City of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the m...

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  Riverland
  

  • Apr-2019
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  When things go bad at home, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide in a secret place under Eleanor’s bed, telling monster stories. Often, it seems those stories and their mother’s house magic are all that keep them safe from both busybodies and their dad�...

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  The Fire Opal Mechanism
  

  • Jun-2019
  • / Fantasy
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  Gem Universe - 2
  

  The Fire Opal Mechanism is the fast-paced and lively sequel to Fran Wilde's The Jewel and Her LapidaryJewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth.Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something b...

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  A Catalog of Storms
  

  • 2020
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands
  

  • Apr-2020
  • / Fantasy
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  Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com OriginalOne can't set a course without a map. A ship's navigator seeks to map a world already inhabited in order to find a space for their ship's passe...

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  Unseelie Brothers Ltd.
  

  • 2021
  • / Science Fiction
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  Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.
  

  • 2021
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  The Ship of Stolen Words
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Fantasy
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  A group of goblins steal a boy’s ability to apologize in The Ship of Stolen Words, a lively middle-grade fantasy from Nebula Award�"winning author Fran Wilde.   No matter how much trouble Sam gets in, he knows that he can always rely on his m...

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  Machina
  

  • Mar-2023
  • / Science Fiction
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  With Earth becoming increasingly uninhabitable, humanity looks to space for salvation. In the arid California desert, two companies compete to send their robots to colonize Mars. DevLok Corporation pits their military contractor logic against Watchov...

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  The Book of Gems
  

  • Jun-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  Gem Universe - 3
  

  “A glittering tale of academic jealousy and ancient artifacts, The Book of Gems is a pulse-pounding adventure.” -- Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin EmperorSome truths are shatterproof... It’s been centuries since the Jeweled Valley and ...

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Award-Winning Books by Fran Wilde

Riverland
2019 Nebula Award -- Andre Norton Award