FRAN WILDE
Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years’ best anthologies.
Fran teaches for the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University and the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Tor.com. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and at franwilde.net.
A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES
Erewhon, 2025
Leverage meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a gaslamp fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy.
The Canarviers are the premier performance thieves in New Washington, blending astonishing acrobatics, clever misdirection, and daring escapes to entertain their rich patrons. As King Canarvier has always told his children, their work is art. Who else could titillate audiences with illicit history lessons and tease them through the gaps in their much-prized security?
Now that they’re adults, King’s children feel their divisions more than their bonds. Roosa attends an exclusive finishing university, blending in so well she’s unsure where she belongs. Her brother Dax craves a chance to prove himself, stifling under his father’s caution.
Then King disappears.
With only days to buy mercy before their father is lost forever, Roo and Dax must compete in a high-stakes Grand Heist, pushing down their resentments to work together. Against a technocrat wagering more than he can lose, a security chief with a taste for pain, and a society beauty with secrets of her own, any misstep promises catastrophic ruin.
But Canarviers are artists. And they perform best when the pressure is on . . .
“Remarkably imaginative and fun!” —Shannon Chakraborty, NYT-bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“Fran Wilde delivers the thrills in this roaring twenties cyberpunk mashup of heists, counter-heists, family lies and family ties. When the Canarviers start stealing, you can’t stop reading.” —Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugo-Award winning internationally bestselling author and National Book Award finalist
THE BOOK OF GEMS
Tor.com / Macmillan
*A FanFiAddict Most Anticipated Release
“A glittering tale of academic jealousy and ancient artifacts, The Book of Gems is a pulse-pounding adventure.” ―Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor
“A creepy and dazzling new page in Fran Wilde’s Gem Universe.” ―Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Max Gladstone
“The Book of Gems is a story full of atmosphere and wonders leading us along an unsettling path to ask: how do you see the truth when you are certain you already know it? Fran Wilde brings us there with an adventurous, suspenseful story delivered with compassion and a steady hand.” ―C.L. Polk, World Fantasy Award-winner
“Sparkling with ancient mystery, rediscovered family, and magical history, The Book of Gems is a gripping story. Fran Wilde delivers a tale filled with compassion and dire warnings.” ―Jodi Meadows, New York Times bestselling author
Praise for Fran Wilde’s Gem Universe series:
”A splendid tale of courage and transformation in a world as exquisite as Wilde’s prose. You will be utterly entranced.” ―Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner, on The Jewel and Her Lapidary
“Readers who loved Jewel will be delighted by this outing.” ―Publishers Weekly, on The Fire Opal Mechanism
“A fun adventure, one that’s beautifully written.” ―io9, on The Jewel and Her Lapidary
“[A] sharp, glittering novella about friendship, family, loyalty, and mental instability.” ―Locus, on The Jewel and Her Lapidary
THE SHIP OF STOLEN WORDS
Amulet Books, 2021
A group of goblins steal a boy’s ability to apologize in this 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 magic word, “sorry,” to get him out of a pinch. Teasing his little sister too much? Sorry! Hurt someone’s feelings in class? Sorry! Forgot to do his chores? So sorry! But when goblins come and steal his “sorry,” he can’t apologize for anything anymore. To get his “sorry” back and stop the goblins from stealing anyone else’s words,
Sam will have to enter the goblins’ world and try and find the depository of stolen words. There, he meets Tolver, a young goblin who’s always dreamed of adventure. Tolver longs to use the goblin technology—which can turn words into fuel to power ships—to set off and explore, but his grandma warns him that the goblin prospectors will only bring trouble. Together, Tolver and Sam will have to outsmart the cruel prospectors and save the day before Sam’s parents ground him forever!
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RIVERLAND
Amulet Books, 2019