The Poppy War Trilogy including The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic and The Burning God, in addition to Babel

The Poppy War

Subterranean Press is pleased to announce an oversized signed limited edition of R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War, which will feature:

• Two color printing throughout on Finch, the paper we use for higher end limited editions.
• A Full-color dust wraparound dust jacket.
• Full-color endsheets.
• Two full-color, full-page interior illustrations
• A chapter head-illustration.

The Poppy War is the first installment in a Chinese-history inspired epic fantasy trilogy about empire, warfare, shamanism, and opium. The Poppy War is a Goodreads Choice Award finalist (twice over), Nebula Award finalist, Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Stabby, Crawford, and Compton Crook Awards.

The Dragon Republic

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by AWANQI (Angela Wang).

Subterranean Press is pleased to announce an oversized signed limited edition of R. F. Kuang’s The Dragon Republic, which will feature:

• Two color printing throughout on Finch, the paper we use for higher end limited editions.
• A Full-color dust wraparound dust jacket.
• Full-color endsheets.
• Two full-color, full-page interior illustrations.
• A chapter head-illustration.

The Dragon Republic is the second installment in a Chinese-history inspired epic fantasy trilogy about empire, warfare, shamanism, and opium. The Poppy War is a Goodreads Choice Award finalist (twice over), Nebula Award finalist, Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Stabby, Crawford, and Compton Crook Awards.

The Burning God

We’re pleased to announce an oversized signed limited edition of R. F. Kuang’s The Burning God, which will feature:

• Two color printing throughout on Finch, the paper we use for higher end limited editions.
• A Full-color dust wraparound dust jacket.
• Full-color endsheets.
• Two full-color, full-page interior illustrations.
• A chapter head-illustration.

The Burning God is the third installment in a Chinese-history inspired epic fantasy trilogy about empire, warfare, shamanism, and opium.

Babel

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Abigail Larson.

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel.

Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.

For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…

Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence? 

This edition will be:

• Oversized, 7 x 10 trim size
• Printed offset in two colors (black and Pantone®) on 70# archival quality paper in Opaque Bright White
• Signed by R. F. Kuang
• Art by Abigail Larson
• Duotone chapter head
• Four color plates, illustrating each of the main characters
• Full color endsheets
• Smyth-sewn binding
• 560 pages

The limited edition will be casebound in cloth, with foil stamping on the spine of the book. It includes a full color wraparound dust jacket.

Matching Numbered Set limited to 500 signed numbered hardcover copies