Peng Shepherd

What is the purpose of a map?

Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field and Nell’s personal hero. But she hasn’t seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway map.

But when Dr. Young is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, with the very same seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, Nell can’t resist investigating. To her surprise, she soon discovers that the map is incredibly valuable and exceedingly rare. In fact, she may now have the only copy left in existence... because a mysterious collector has been hunting down and destroying every last one—along with anyone who gets in the way.

But why?

To answer that question, Nell embarks on a dangerous journey to reveal a dark family secret and discovers the true power that lies in maps...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret—one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family’s dark history

The Cartographers

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY Elle • Refinery29 • PopSugar • Verge "Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven." --Booklist WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure. Like The Passage and Station Eleven, this haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory, connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down.

A Novel

The Book of M

More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world. Inspired by the real-life “Future Library,” a long-term environmental and literary public art project currently underway in the Norwegian wilderness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.com Original

The Future Library

"Marsh is convinced she's missed her chance at everything--romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure--and is desperate for a do-over. She can't believe her luck when she's selected to be the star of the global sensation All This and More, a show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants the chance to revise their pasts and change their present lives. It's Marsh's only shot to seize her dreams, and she's determined to get it right this time. But even as she rises to become a famous lawyer, gets back together with her high school sweetheart, and travels the world, she begins to worry that All This and More's promises might be too good to be true. Because while the technology is amazing, something seems a bit off....Can Marsh really make her life everything she wants it to be? And is it worth it?"

All This and More

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The Book Of M - Kiyamet Basliyor

Annalee Newitz

Elizabeth Bear

Sam J. Miller

Catherynne M. Valente

Usman T. Malik

Sarah Pinsker

E. Lily Yu

Lavie Tidhar

Daniel Polansky

Kate Elliott

Matthew Kressel

Carrie Vaughn

Kathleen Jennings

G. V. Anderson

Cheri Kamei

Glen Hirshberg

'Pemi Aguda

Jasmin Kirkbride

A. T. Greenblatt

Cooper Shrivastava

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2021. Includes stories by: 'Pemi Aguda G. V. Anderson Elizabeth Bear Kate Elliott Aliza Greenblatt Glen Hirshberg Elsie Kathleen Jennings Cheri Kamei Jasmin Kirkbride Matthew Kressel Usman T. Malik Sam J. Miller Annalee Newitz noc Sarah Pinsker Daniel Polansky Peng Shepherd Cooper Shrivastava Lavie Tidhar Catherynne M. Valente Carrie Vaughn E. Lily Yu At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021

Le livre de M

Book of M

Que seriez-vous prêt à sacrifier pour vous souvenir ? Un jour, en Inde, un homme perd son ombre - un phénomène que la science échoue à expliquer. Il est le premier, mais bientôt on observe des milliers, des millions de cas similaires. Non contentes de perdre leur ombre, les victimes perdent peu à peu leurs souvenirs et peuvent devenir dangereuses. En se cachant dans un hôtel abandonné au fond des bois, Max et son mari Ory ont échappé à la fin du monde tel qu'ils l'ont connu. Leur nouvelle vie semble presque normale, jusqu'au jour où l'ombre de Max disparaît... Situé dans une Amérique tombée de son piédestal, où nul n'échappe au danger, Le Livre de M raconte l'incroyable destin de gens ordinaires victimes d'une catastrophe mondiale extraordinaire. Peng Shepherd est américaine. Le livre de M, récompensé par le Neukom Award 2019, est son premier roman.

Le Livre de M

Dystopická fikce mladé americké autorky. Z nevysvětlitelných důvodů lidé po celém světě ztrácejí své stíny a s nimi i své vzpomínky. Na slavnosti v indickém městě Puné ztratí jeden muž svůj vlastní stín. To, co zpočátku vypadá jako senzace, se postupně mění v noční můru. Ztráta stínu totiž předchází ztrátě paměti. Epidemie ztráty stínu se rozšířila po celém světě, více a více lidí začíná ztrácet svůj stín, městy se potulují hordy ubožáků, kteří netuší, odkud jdou a kam, všude vládne chaos a zmatek. Ti, kteří dosud svůj stín neztratili, se snaží přežít, jak se dá. Mladí manželé Max a Orlando se ukrývají v opuštěném hotelovém komplexu, dokud i Max nepřijde o svůj stín. Max ví, že se ztrátou paměti bude pro Orlanda nebezpečná a rozhodne se odejít, a tím navždy změní svůj život i život svého manžela.

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