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Jim C. Hines

    April 15, 1974

    Jim C. Hines is an author celebrated for his humorous fantasy series, including a goblin-centric saga and a collection of fairy tale retellings. His work often explores themes of belonging and finding one's place in the world, woven with inventive genre twists. Hines is recognized for a distinctive style that balances wit with insightful character explorations. His novels offer readers a refreshing take on fantastical realms.

    Fable: Blood of Heroes
    Unbound
    Terminal Uprising
    Revisionary
    Terminal Peace
    Arcana
    • 2023

      Amelia Sand and the Silver Queens

      • 250 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Set in Ainsworth Academy, Amelia Sand, a nonhuman student, uncovers a sinister plot by the ruling Umbra-humans to use magic for controlling her and her peers. Determined to thwart their plans for forced obedience, she embarks on a courageous quest to protect her fellow monsters from oppression. The story explores themes of autonomy, resistance, and the struggle against tyranny in a world where the line between human and monster is sharply drawn.

      Amelia Sand and the Silver Queens
    • 2022

      The third and final book of The Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague.

      Terminal Peace
    • 2021

      Arcana

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Tarot card decks have twenty-two major arcana, filled with symbolism and imbued with meaning. Explore the greater secrets and ideas behind those cards with the stories and poems of Arcana. Discovery awaits, in tales such as: a grasping king struggling with his legacy; an alchemist setting a golem out on a mission of revenge; and a woman finding what she didn't know she was looking for. Each story is like drawing a card from the deck--you never know what it might reveal.Featuring stories by Sara Dobie Bauer, Greg Bechtel, Beth Cato, Eliza Chan, Kevin Cockle, Sara Cleto, J.G. Formato, Chadwick Ginther, Joseph Halden, Gabrielle Harbowy, Jim C. Hines, Diana Hurlburt, L.S. Johnson, Dan Koboldt, C.S. MacCath, Susan MacGregor, Cat McDonald, Annie Neugebauer, Alexandra Seidel, Angela Slatter, Sarena Ulibarri, Brittany Warman and BD Wilson.

      Arcana
    • 2020

      Terminal Uprising

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.1(47)Add rating

      Human civilization didn't just fall. It was pushed. The Krakau came to Earth in the year 2104. By 2105, humanity had been reduced to shambling, feral monsters. In the Krakau's defense, it was an accident, and a century later, they did come back and try to fix us. Sort of. It's been four months since Marion 'Mops' Adamopoulos learned the truth of that accident. Four months since she and her team of hygiene and sanitation specialists stole the EMCS Pufferfish and stopped a bioterrorism attack against the Krakau homeworld. Four months since she set out to find proof of what really happened on Earth all those years ago. Between trying to protect their secrets and fighting the xenocidal Prodryans, who've been escalating their war against everyone who isn't Prodryan, the Krakau have their tentacles full. Mops' mission changes when she learns of a secret Krakau laboratory on Earth. A small group under command of Fleet Admiral Belle-Bonne Sage is working to create a new weapon, one that could bring victory over the Prodryans or drown the galaxy in chaos. To discover the truth, Mops and her rogue cleaning crew will have to do the one thing she fears most: return to Earth, a world overrun by feral apes, wild dogs, savage humans, and worse. (After all, the planet hasn't been cleaned in a century and a half!) What Mops finds in the filthy ruins of humanity could change everything, assuming she survives long enough to share it. Perhaps humanity isn't as dead as the galaxy thought

      Terminal Uprising
    • 2018

      Terminal Alliance

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.0(94)Add rating

      The first installment of Hugo-winning author Hines' new series, ideal for fans of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos, head of a spaceship's Health and Sanitation crew, guides her team through a zombie infestation and their discovery that the human history they took for granted isn't quite the whole story.

      Terminal Alliance
    • 2017

      Revisionary

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.2(70)Add rating

      When Isaac Vainio helped to reveal magic to the world, he dreamed of a utopian future, a new millennium of magical prosperity, but things aren't going as he planned. Surrounded by betrayal and political intrigue, Isaac and a ragtag group of allies must evade pursuit both magical and mundane, expose a conspiracy by some of the most powerful people in the world, and find a path to a better future.

      Revisionary
    • 2016

      Unbound

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.2(94)Add rating

      Michigan librarian Isaac, stripped of his power, teams up with fire-spider Smudge, dryad warrior Lena, and psychiatrist Nidhi in order to stop a banished queen who has returned in the body of a young girl.

      Unbound
    • 2015

      The city of Brightlodge is awash with heroes from every corner of Albion, all eager for their next quest. When someone tries to burn down the Cock and Bard Inn, four heroes find themselves thrown together, chasing outlaws through sewers, storming a riverboat full of smugglers, and placing their trust in a most unlikely ally.

      Fable: Blood of Heroes
    • 2014

      Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg's power brought him many enemies, and some of those enemies have waited centuries for revenge. Revenge which begins with the brutal slaughter of a wendigo in the northern Michigan town of Tamarack, a long-established werewolf territory. Libriomancer Isaac Vainio is part of Die Zwelf Portenære, better known as the Porters, the organization founded by Gutenberg to protect the world from magical threats. Isaac is called in to investigate the killing, along with Porter psychiatrist Nidhi Shah and his dryad bodyguard and lover, Lena Greenwood. Born decades ago from the pages of a pulp fantasy novel, Lena was created to be the ultimate fantasy woman, strong and deadly, but shaped by the needs and desires of her companions. Her powers are unique, and Gutenberg's enemies hope to use those powers for themselves. But their plan could unleash a far darker evil ...

      Codex Born. Die Buchmagier - Angriff der Verschlinger, englische Ausgabe
    • 2013