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Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down monsters, averted wars, and saved a city, twice. She thought she'd left her dusty little hometown forever. But that was before her father died.

On the island of Kavekana, Priestess Kai builds gods to order - sort of. Kai's creations are perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the Old World. For beyond the ocean, true deities still thrive, untouched by the God Wars that transformed the city-states of Alt Coulumb and Dresediel Lex. When Kai tries to save a friend's dying idol, she's gravely injured - then sidelined from the business, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability.

The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess, Seril, long thought dead, is back - and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm - and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world.

Welcome to Prague, 1970: ground zero in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient organizations that seek to harness elemental magic. Tanya Morozova is a KGB officer and the latest in a long of Ice sorceresses; Gabe Pritchard is a CIA officer and reluctant Ice recruit. Enemies at one turn, but forced into alliances at the next, their relationship is as explosive as the Cold War itself.

Magic is real, and hungry. It’s trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. She joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad—Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum—and together they stand between humanity and the magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like the label.

Sal Brookes og resten af holdet opdager, at ærkefjenden mr. Norse er faretruende tæt på at komme i besiddelse af "Kodeks Umbra", et leksikon over dæmoner, der er i stand til at ødelægge hele verden. Da de skal til at stoppe ham, forsvinder han ind i en anden verden, og der er ikke andet at gøre end at følge efter ham! Magi findes, og nogle bøger bider fra sig. Følg Sal Brooks, den seneste rekrut på en hemmelig magisk mission, mens hun rejser verden rundt for at holde overnaturlige kræfter i skak.

Kriminalbetjent Sal Brooks har haft en forfærdeligt lang dag. Det sidste, hun har brug for, er, at hendes lillebror Perry endnu engang beder hende om hjælp, fordi hans kaotiske liv er gået i stykker igen. Men hun kan ikke få sig til at sende ham væk, og det bliver værst for Perry. Sal ser på, da Perry tilfældigvis åbner en bog - den forkerte bog. Han forvandler sig til en helt anden person, og da Sal forsøger at opklare sagen, gør hun en uhyggelig opdagelse: Magi findes virkelig.

Med den mystiske Aarons hjælp er det lykkedes holdet at få fingre i "Håndens bog", og det betyder, at de måske kan få forvist Hånden fra Sal én gang for alle. Men hvis de også vil redde Sals bror Perry, må Sal rejse til Håndens uhyggelige dimension for at finde ham. Samtidig er Vatikanets antimagikorps nummer 1 på sporet af Sals hold, som nu er i fare fra deres gamle mestre... Magi findes, og nogle bøger bider fra sig.

Det er normalt at have hemmeligheder, når man er en del af Vatikanets tophemmelige antimagikorps, men Grace synes at passe alt for godt på sine. Til sidst kan Sal ikke styre sin nysgerrighed og sætter sig for at lære Graces hemmelighed at kende. Det kræver imidlertid, at hun tager tilbage til 1930‘ernes Kina, og det er bestemt ikke ufarligt... Magi findes, og nogle bøger bider fra sig. Følg Sal Brooks, den seneste rekrut på en hemmelig magisk mission, mens hun rejser verden rundt for at holde overnaturlige kræfter i skak.

The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five short list for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo Award's long list of works - the top 15 works nominated for each category - were these nine short stories and three novelettes, now made available to a wider audience by award-winning narrators.