![]() ![]() It’s hard to believe this is Glover’s first book. The characters, led by former Underground Railroad conductors Hetty and Benjy Rhodes, are as intriguing as the mystery. ![]() She effortlessly weaves both the constellation-based magical system and the real life struggles of being Black in post–Civil War America. ![]() “With The Conductors, Nicole Glover creates a fascinating world where even magic is segregated. ![]() The Conductors has all the elements I was looking for in a good story.” -Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo Award–winning author of The Calculating Stars “Community dynamics mixed with a magical alternate Reconstruction-era mystery. Glover’s worldbuilding, characters, and attention to historical detail create a delightfully genre-bending debut!” -Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Ghost Summer: Stories The Vigilance Society and the magic-wielding couple at the core of this story are a welcome addition to the growing chorus of voices in Black speculative fiction. “ The Conductors is a seamless blending of magic, mystery, and history, creating power and wonder with its rarefied glimpse of Black life in the late 1800s. Glover is a writer to watch.” -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Inventively mixing mystery, magic, and alternate history…Readers will be surprised but gratified by an ending that shows just how past actions inform the present in unexpected ways. ![]()
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