Swords and Spaceships for November 17

When Caiden’s home planet is destroyed, all he has left is a single-minded quest for revenge. Picked up by a crew of alien misfits who fly on a ship that might well be alive–and might contain its own universe–he pursues the slavers that took away everything he loved. His best chance for vengeance is to infiltrate his enemies and destroy them from the inside.

Kit Brightling is a foundling who has worked hard to rise in the ranks of the Crown Command and become one of the few female captains. Her magical affinity with the sea gives her small ship speed and maneuverability beyond its specifications. But when she’s sent on a special mission with Rian Grant, someone she has every reason to distrust, she must learn to set aside her suspicions if they’re to succeed at rescuing a spy and saving their country.

Left for dead by her so-called allies after saving Nikan from invaders and defeating an evil empress, Fang Runin still isn’t ready to give up. She returns to her roots in the southern provinces, and while the leadership of that coalition is untrustworthy, the millions of commoners echo her thirst for vengeance. She will use every weapon to defeat the new Dragon Republic and the colonizers, but will she be able to resist the Phoenix’s urge to burn everything?

The fourth book of the Stormlight Archive saga continues the brutal war of the human resistence against the invasion, with technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars promising to change the face of battle even as the enemy prepares its own deadly operation. The conflict becomes an arms race set to challenge the heart of the Radiant ideals–and perhaps reveal secrets better left buried.

In an unnamed slum in Argentina, a young woman is compelled to eat earth, and the consumption of it gives her visions of lost and broken lives. At first she keeps these visions to herself, but after befriending a withdrawn police office, word of her ability spreads and soon desperate people are searching her out, trying to find news of their lost loved ones.

In 1920s Shanghai, the streets run red with blood, drawn in a feud between two rival gangs. Juliette Cai, a former flapper who is now heir to the Scarlet, faces off against her first love who betrayed her, Roma Montagov of the White Flowers. But their bitter enmity must be set aside after rumors of a monster in the shadows causing death and madness reach their ears.