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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) 3.81 avg rating — 14,211 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 — 3,962 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
	Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf 3.80 avg rating — 2,108 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
	Fate's Bane 3.75 avg rating — 1,634 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) 4.19 avg rating — 909 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) 3.47 avg rating — 704 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
	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) 4.06 avg rating — 123 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
	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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The Elric Saga, 6 books by Michael Moorcock starting with Elric of Melniboné

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The Poppy War, 3 books by R.F. Kuang starting with The Poppy War

9 votes, 30.0%

The Song of the Shattered Sands, 6 books by Bradley P. Beaulieu starting with Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

4 votes, 13.3%

Empire of Salt, 3 books by C.F. Iggulden starting with Darien

4 votes, 13.3%

Paladin’s Legacy, 5 books by Elizabeth Moon starting with Oath of Fealty

1 vote, 3.3%

Magic of the Lost, 3 books by C.L. Clark starting with The Unbroken

1 vote, 3.3%

Kindred’s Curse, 4 books by Penn Cole starting with Spark of the Everflame

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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.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

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“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

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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.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

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