A Taste of Honey [Paperback]

A Taste of Honeyis the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus finalist novella that N. K. Jemisin calls a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex . One ofBook Riot's Best Books We Read in November.

Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Dalu?a, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.

Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin to the royal family and son of the Master of Beasts, has more mortal and pressing concerns. His heart has been captured for the first time by a handsome Dalu?an soldier named Lucrio. In defiance of Saintly Canon, gossiping servants, and the furious disapproval of his father and brother, Aqib finds himself swept up in a whirlwind gay romance. But neither Aqib nor Lucrio know whether their love can survive all the hardships the world has to throw at them.

KAI ASHANTE WILSON was the 2010 Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion writing workshop in San Diego. He won the Crawford award for best first novel of 2016, and his works have been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. Most of his stories can be read at Tor.com, and the rest at Fantasy-magazine.com or in the anthologyStories for Chip. His novellasThe Sorcerer of the WildeepsandA Taste of Honeyare available from all fine e-book purveyors. Kai Ashante Wilson lives in New York City.

Wilson has woven a fractal tapestry of a world  past mingling with future, exotic magic spiced with futuristic science, gods with too-human needs  and set in it a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex. N. K. Jemisin, Hugo Award-winning author ofThe Fifth Season

One of our most stylistically and thematically original fantasists. Saladin Ahmed, author ofThrone ofl£z