The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

A breathtaking geopolitical epic fantasy, The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's "fascinating tale" (The Washington Post), The Traitor Baru Cormorant.

Her world was shattered by the Empire of Masks.
For the power to shatter the Masquerade,
She betrayed everyone she loved.

The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist--a secret lord of the empire she's vowed to destroy.

Hunted by a mutinous admiral, haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two, Baru leads her dearest foes on an expedition for the secret of immortality. It's her chance to trigger a war that will consume the Masquerade.

But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge...or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her.

SETH DICKINSON'S short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Beyond Ceaseless Skies. He is a lapsed student of social neuroscience and an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, where he won the 2011 Dell Magazines Prize. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. The first three books in The Masquerade series are The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Monster Baru Cormorant, and The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.