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LUCOB

LUCOB is the pen name of a writer who firmly believes anything can become a weapon if you understand it well enough - including, on one regrettable occasion, a soup ladle.

In WHEN THE WORLD FORGOT KUNG FU (teens and adults), a thousand-year-old master wakes in modern California to find the world kept the smoothies but lost the sword arts. Fifty years later, in the REDWOOD GATE series (readers 8-12), the world has remembered: firefighters bend water with qi, robot coaches breathe purely for dramatic effect, and the greatest martial academy on Earth just admitted a boy its systems refuse to classify.

Sharp-eyed readers may notice a rule-memorizing student who shares the author's name. The author maintains the character earned it. The character maintains he is owed royalties.

LUCOB has attempted the same move five hundred times. He is very confident about attempt five hundred and one.

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  • The novel behind A Debt of Dragons

    A Debt of Dragons

    Hong Mei poles the ferry at Willow Crossing and charges the drowned half fare. When she pulls an arrow out of a golden carp, the fish turns out to be the Eighth Prince of the lake's dragons, bound to her lamp until he saves her life. Neither of them is pleased about it, and the Lake Court has plans of its own. Drawn from tales by Pu Songling, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

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  • The novel behind A Debt of Foxes

    A Debt of Foxes

    Lin Ming is the only living clerk in the Bureau of the Unrecorded, an office of the dead, and she owes fourteen lines for striking her father's name from the death roll by mistake. The Bureau assigns a surety to hold against the debt: Nine, a fox with perfect manners, no line in any register and strong opinions about her handwriting. Every case she closes pays one line back. Drawn from tales by Pu Songling, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

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  • The novel behind The Forgotten Arts

    The Forgotten Arts

    Shen Mo reaches the burning gate of Origin Gate, the hidden house of the old martial arts, on the night it falls. He wakes in a modern city where Detective Su Yue is looking at a death no doctor can explain. The arts the world forgot are back, and he may be the only one who knows how they kill.

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  • The novel behind The Hollow Crown

    The Hollow Crown

    Kael Veyran is nineteen, unranked, and a miner in a town that pays the levy and never sees the healer. He can draw power out of broken things, and every big draw takes one memory for good. To buy his dying sister a licensed healer he must win a rigged provincial tournament, while hiding the one art that carries a death sentence, and while an auditor from the capital closes in on the conspiracy draining his town.

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  • The novel behind The Last Dungeon Architect

    The Broken Core

    Ilan Mercer died in the dark under the city, counting men who never came out. He wakes years earlier, on the morning his late father's living dungeon is condemned, with one chance to stop the strike that killed it. To save it he must bond its broken keystone and feel every load it carries in his own body, work his way up the architects' ranks from Claimant toward Mason, and outplay a courteous warden who wants that keystone for himself.

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  • The novel behind The Rainbound City

    What the Rain Cannot Hold

    Su keeps an old apothecary in rain-soaked Seattle, where she treats the neighbourhood's aches and keeps a secret beneath her sleeve: she is a white snake living as a woman. When Evan Xu, a tired Harborview charge nurse, keeps finding his way to her counter, she must decide how much of herself anyone can be allowed to see. The legend of the White Snake, retold in the present day.

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  • The novel behind The Unquiet City

    The Dead Must Be Disclosed

    Callum Rourke is a contractor who quietly clears the dead out of San Francisco's old buildings. Then a job binds him to Yip Sau-lin, a ghost who died in the 1870s, and neither can stray far from the other. Together they dig into the city's buried history while something beneath it pulls at the tether between them.

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