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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 15, 2025

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One of the most engaging anti-hero rogues in all fantasy, Locke Lamora is even more fascinating when paired with his buddy Jean. If you haven’t read The Lies of Locke Lamora, you have a treat in store. It is Book One of The Gentleman Bastards series.

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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 14, 2025

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quotation from Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell," framed by an antique mirror

Susanna Clarke’s brilliant tour de force of a fantasy novel was published in 2004.

cover of "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell," by Susanna Clarke
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 12, 2025

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Patrick Rothfuss’s 2007 fantasy novel The Name of the Wind gives a reader more fun than any reader has a right to have. The novel shouldn’t work. Magnificently, it does. (Except for Denna, the most annoying female character ever written.)

cover of "The Name of the Wind," fantasy novel by Patrick Rothfuss
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