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#1 Added date#2 Added page count, other edits done by other Librarians
#3 Added page count, removed WF Howes. Someone else added cover art.
#4 Added publication date
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1. US Ebook: The Fourth Consort (ISBN 9781250286345)
- The publication date is incomplete. It should be February 25, 2025.
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2. US Audible: The Fourth Consort (ASIN B0D47X6QGF)
- The page count is missing. It should be 9.
- Macmillan Audio needs to be removed from the contributors list. They’re already in the Publisher field.
- The cover art is missing. Available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/cjOQzvs
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3. UK Audible: The Fourth Consort (ASIN B0DRPTYYWW)
- The page count is missing. It should be 9.
- W. F. Howes Ltd. needs to be removed from the contributors list. They’re already in the Publisher field.
- The cover art is missing. Available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/giTrRyx
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4. UK Ebook: The Fourth Consort (ISBN 9781837864126)
- The publication date is incomplete. It should be February 27, 2025.
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5. Missing Edition: US Digital Audiobook
TITLE: The Fourth Consort
AUTHOR: Edward Ashton
NARRATOR: Barrie Kreinik
ISBN-10: 1250380014
ISBN-13: 9781250380012
ASIN: 1250380014
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Audio
DATE PUBLISHED: February 25, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 9
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION:
A new standalone sci-fi novel from Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (the inspiration for the major motion picture Mickey 17).
Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood.
That’s what they told him, anyway. The only actual members of Unity that he’s ever met are Boreau, a giant snail who seems more interested in plunder than spreading love and harmony, and Boreau’s human sidekick, Neera, who Dalton strongly suspects roped him into this gig so that she wouldn’t become the next one of Boreau’s crew to get eaten by locals while prospecting.
Funny thing, though—turns out there actually is a benevolent confederation out there, working for the good of all life. They call themselves the Assembly, and they really don’t like Unity. More to the point, they really, really don’t like Unity’s new human minions.
When an encounter between Boreau’s scout ship and an Assembly cruiser over a newly discovered world ends badly for both parties, Dalton finds himself marooned, caught between a stickman, one of the Assembly’s nightmarish shock troops, the planet’s natives, who aren’t winning any congeniality prizes themselves, and Neera, who might actually be the most dangerous of the three. To survive, he’ll need to navigate palace intrigue, alien morality, and a proposal that he literally cannot refuse, all while making sure Neera doesn’t come to the conclusion that he’s worth more to her dead than alive.
Part first contact story, part dark comedy, and part bizarre love triangle, The Fourth Consort asks an important question: how far would you go to survive? And more importantly, how many drinks would you need to go there?
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://mpd-biblio-covers.imgix.net/9... // https://us.macmillan.com/books/978125...