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Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Epic
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K.
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Epic, overwhelming, bleak and richly built.
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On Open Library, 76 have read it and 521 want to.
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Chinese-American fantasy writer. Her first novel, *The Poppy War*, was released in 2018, followed by the sequels *The Dragon Republic* in 2019 and *The Burning God* in 2020. Kuang has won the Compton Crook Award, the Crawford Award, and the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer, along with being a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, The Kitschies, and British Fantasy awards for her first novel. **Source*: [R. F. Kuang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._F._Kuang) on Wikipedia.
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