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C.L. Clark

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C. L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award-winning author of several books, including The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost trilogy), Fate's Bane (a novella), and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane novel). When she’s not writing, she’s trying not to throw her kettlebells through the wall. Her work has appeared in various SFF venues, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Sign up to her newsletter for updates and bonus materials. ...more

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	The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 14,609 ratings — published 2021 — 12 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 Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 4,148 ratings — published 2023 — 11 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
	Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf 3.79 avg rating — 2,268 ratings — published 2025 — 21 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
	Fate's Bane 3.75 avg rating — 1,910 ratings — published 2025 — 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 Sovereign (Magic of the Lost, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 1,121 ratings — published 2025 — 8 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 Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linda D. Addison (Contributor), P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.48 avg rating — 725 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020 by C.L. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charles Payseur (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Fortune's Wake 4.14 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2026 — 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
	Lo que deparan los sueños by C.L. Clark (Goodreads Author), Laura Morán Iglesias (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2023	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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“You don't find a life. You have to make one, with the people around you and the causes you put your strength into.”
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“As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name.”
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“She was here because she was a soldier. A fighter. She didn't know anything else, and she was good at it...It would be the death of her, but she'd always expected that.”
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“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”
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“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
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“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
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“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
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