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Audition For The Fox

Martin Cahill

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English
Miscellaneous
16 September 2025
Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. Without the protection of a divine animal, she will never be allowed to leave her temple home. But after she fails ninety-six auditions, Nesi makes a risky prayer to T'sidaan, the Fox of Tricks. In folk tales, the Fox is a loveable prankster. But despite their humour and charm, T'sidaan, and their audition, is no joke. They throw Nesi back in time three hundred years, when her homeland is occupied by the brutal Wolfhounds of Zemin. Now, Nesi must ally with her besieged people and learn a trickster's guile to snatch a fortress from the disgraced and exiled 100th Pillar: The Wolf of the Hunt.
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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm, 
ISBN:   9781616964443
ISBN 10:   1616964448
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Martin Cahill has published short fiction in venues including Fireside, Reactor, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, and Nightmare. Cahill's stories ""The Fifth Horseman"" and ""Godmeat"" were respectively nominated for the Ignyte Award and included in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. He was also one of the writers on Batman: The Blind Cut and a contributor to Critical Role: Vox Machina - Stories Untold. Cahill, who works at Erewhon Books, lives just outside New York City.

Reviews for Audition For The Fox

Advance Praise for The Audition for the Fox ""A triumph, a candle-bright and timely pleasure lit up by gorgeous prose and an exuberant love for the world and for hope."" --Cassandra Khaw, author of The All-Consuming World [STARRED REVIEW] ""A marvelous and heartbreaking tale of a lone warrior for good who learns that she can't succeed alone but that making friends carries its own devastation."" --Library Journal ""Nimble, sly, and strange as the title character, Cahill has wrought a fine filigree of a tale--with a bold, uncompromising heart."" --Catherynne Valente, New York Times bestselling author of The Fairyland Series ""Fox-fleet and brazen, merry and mischievous, haunted by mercies: Martin Cahill's Audition for the Fox has the trick of doling delight. The language leaps and laughs, teeming with a trickster's teasing. This book made me happy: both while I was reading it, and long after I'd finished."" --C. S. E. Cooney, author of St. Death's Daughter ""Tricksy, generous, timely--Audition for the Fox reminds us that we are the sum of the stories we tell ourselves...and stories can change."" --Premee Mohamed, author of The Butcher of the Forest ""Timely and timeless, heartbreaking and inspiring. Hug the pages when you've reached the end. Then light a candle for the fox."" --Lyndsie Manusos, author of From These Dark Abodes ""Filled with elegant yet thrilling prose, Audition for the Fox drops you headlong into a fascinating setting where the stakes ramp up until you're turning the pages with bated breath and mourning the moment you will reach the last page and have to leave this world behind."" --Jordan Shiveley, author of Hot Singles In Your Area ""Martin Cahill gives us a world of gods and stories and hope against oppression. He writes with great warmth and heart, and--as in any good book with a fox in--sharply sly trickery set to the best of ends."" --Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians ""Humor and heart...I would absolutely love to read more adventures set in this world."" --The Grimm Librarian


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