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Auston Habershaw

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in Boston, MA, The United States

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery

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Auston Habershaw is the author of the Saga of the Redeemed (Harper Voyager Impulse), If Wishes Were Retail (Tachyon), and Faceless Galaxy (JAB Books). Habershaw has published over 30 science fiction and fantasy short stories in Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among other places. His next book, In Her Exquisite Clutches (Tachyon) releases in March 2027.

Habershaw has worked as a lifeguard, barista, waiter, QA tester, dog walker, hotel bellhop, pedicab driver, SAT tutor, office drone, and a bunch of other random things. He currently teaches composition and literature at MCPHS University in Boston, Massachusetts. You can find him online at aahabershaw.com

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	If Wishes Were Retail 3.74 avg rating — 427 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iron Ring (Saga of the Redeemed Book I Part I) 3.88 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron and Blood (Saga of the Redeemed Book I Part II) 4.13 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Good Deed (Saga of the Redeemed Book II) 4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oldest Trick (Saga of the Redeemed #1-2) 4.19 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead But Once (Saga of the Redeemed Book III) 4.12 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Far Far Better Thing: The Epic Fantasy Conclusion to the Saga of the Redeemed – A Sword and Sorcery Adventure 4.08 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Masochist's Assistant it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The proclamation had been very clear: All eligible maidens were to attend. All. High or low estate, fat or thin, short or tall, one leg or two. In one week's time, the prince was going to pick a pretty girl from the crowd and make a princess of her. To most women in the kingdom, it was as though God had extended His hand to them.

But not to the seamstresses.

To old Clara Le Dure, it seemed the king had decided this was the week she ought to die. He was personally seeing to it that she should stitch herself into oblivion.”
― Auston Habershaw, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2020

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