Ruthanna Emrys

Innsmouth Legacy

1 - Winter Tide (Apr-2017)
2 - Deep Roots (Jul-2018)

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  The Litany of Earth
  

  • May-2014
  • / Fantasy
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  The state took Aphra away from Innsmouth. They took her history, her home, her family, her god. They tried to take the sea. Now, years later, when she is just beginning to rebuild a life, an agent of that government intrudes on her life again, with a...

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  Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land
  

  • Aug-2014
  • / Fantasy
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  Tikanu, land of laws and patterns, magic and wild mint, is not found behind hidden doors. It passes across borders and takes root wherever its people settle. This collection of seven commentaries reveals a world waiting patiently at the edges of visi...

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  The Deepest Rift
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Science Fiction
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  In the deepest canyon in the inhabited worlds, giant mantas soar through the air and leave patterned structures behind. A team of sapiologists seek to prove that these delicate filaments are true language, not just bee's dance. But time has r...

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  Winter Tide
  

  • Apr-2017
  • / Dark Fantasy
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  Innsmouth Legacy - 1
  

  After attacking Devil's Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, a...

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  Deep Roots
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Dark Fantasy
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  Innsmouth Legacy - 2
  

  Ruthanna Emrys' Innsmouth Legacy, which began with Winter Tide and continues with Deep Roots, confronts H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos head-on, boldly upturning his fear of the unknown with a heart-warming story of found family, acceptance, and per...

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  The Word of Flesh and Soul
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Dark Fantasy
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  The language of the originators defines reality, every word warping the world to fit its meaning. Its study transforms the mind and body, and is closely guarded by stodgy, paranoid academics. These hidebound men don't trust many students with their s...

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  Imperfect Commentaries
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / Science Fiction
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  Sympathy with the sea, with the weird, and with monsters fills the stories of Imperfect Commentaries. Ruthanna Emrys's collection offers listeners feminist and #ownvoices Neo-Lovecraftian fiction, anthropological science fiction, and fantasies of bel...

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  A Half-Built Garden
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Science Fiction
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  A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extra-terrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards,...

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