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The Mongolian Wizard Stories

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick presents a new fiction series, consisting of stand-alone stories all set in the same world—an alternate fin de siècle Europe shot through with magic, mystery, and intrigue.

An illustrated montage of soldiers against a shattered pocket watch, the shell of a bombed building and a trio of artillery guns.

Dragons of Paris

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An illustrated montage of a woman holding an empty bird cage and a trio of masked bandits.

Halcyon Afternoon

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The New Prometheus

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Murder in the Spook House

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The Phantom in the Maze

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The Pyramid of Krakow

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The Night of the Salamander

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House of Dreams

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Day of the Kraken

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The Fire Gown

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The Mongolian Wizard

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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic.”

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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