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Iona Datt Sharma

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance

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I'm Iona, I write science fiction and fantasy and contemporary romance. My last romance, Blood Sweat Glitter, came out on 1 December 2024 and a new collection of SFF short stories, You Are Here, comes out on 1 January 2025.

My surname is "Datt Sharma", two words, but books listed on Goodreads under "Iona Sharma" are also me. ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 1,415 ratings · 484 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian (Goodreads Author), Iona Datt Sharma (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Division Bells 4.20 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Underwater Ballroom Society by Tiffany Trent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephanie Burgis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Anne Gilman (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic by Iona Datt Sharma (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author), Stephanie Burgis (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penhallow Amid Passing Things 4.08 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not For Use In Navigation: Thirteen Stories 4.18 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Sweat Glitter 4.41 avg rating — 80 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Are Here: Nine More Stories 4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346 by Scott H. Andrews (Editor), Jonathan Olfert (Goodreads Author), Iona Datt Sharma (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	khōréō, Volume 1, Issue 1 by Aleksandra Hill (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rowan Morrison (Editor), Lian Xia Rose (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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This is a collected edition of the first six Arabel and Mortimer books, and it is just as funny, unhinged and anarchic as it was when I was small. I love Arabel and her raven, and the little north London district of Rumbury Town, NW3 1/2! And while i ...more
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“Do you ever think about our other covenant? Tishrel asks Cazerin, in another letter. The Tawnpar prisoners had given themselves another duty, to be discharged after they had made their way home. Getting revenge on everyone who hurt us?

Too busy bringing peace and order to a frankly ungrateful populace, Cazerin writes back. If I ever get the time, I’ll let you know.”
― Iona Datt Sharma, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346

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“During the unbearable years of tyranny, the political prisoners of the Anchorite Hegemony made a solemn covenant: when the time came, they would cross the last miles to freedom on their feet. For reasons of youth and idiocy, Tishrel thought he would have a choice in the matter. The doors of his cell would open, and rather than flee into the sky, he would make the journey as he had made his way through the years in captivity: with what dignity he could, one foot after another.”
― Iona Datt Sharma, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346

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“Thousands of years ago, dragons made human sacrifices to the Divine. In these enlightened days the sacrifice is symbolic: ten figures cut out from rag paper, decorated and burned. Tishrel, watching from behind the temple’s carved columns, considers his own internal fires, his consciousness of the Divine. Even if he stays in human form for the rest of his life, those flames within him are banked, not quenched. Even after years of incarceration and torture, something inside him is still burning.”
― Iona Datt Sharma, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346

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