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core novel 2016 The Arcadia Project
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.85 (4,971 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781481429788 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Millie Roper, a young film student with borderline personality disorder, is in a residential psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt that cost her both legs and ended her career. Her recovery is interrupted when Caryl Vallo offers her a job with the Arcadia Project, a secret organization based in Hollywood that manages travel between Earth and a parallel realm of fairy tale and myth, home to the Fey. Millie moves into a house with other agents, all of them damaged in their own ways, and is given a first case: finding Rivenholt, a Seelie Court nobleman who has gone missing while posing as a movie star. As she searches for him, she runs into a conspiracy that could push the human world and the Fey courts into open war.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Arcadia Project
- Series: The Arcadia Project core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mishell Baker
Awards (verified)
- Nebula Award (Best Novel), 2016: nominated
- World Fantasy Award (Best Novel), 2017: nominated
Notes
- From the series record (The Arcadia Project): Millie Roper, a disabled former film student, works for a secret organization that polices contact between Hollywood and the Fey.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Arcadia Project: position 1 of 3: next Phantom Pains (2017)
Sources
← The Arcadia Project dossier · All universes
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