Silver and Lead
core novel 2025 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.30 (2,387 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 389 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250375193 |
| Internal chronology | 19 |
Synopsis
Silver and Lead is the nineteenth novel in the October Daye series. It opens with Toby, now heavily pregnant, taking on the search for a set of missing magical artifacts despite the physical complications of her condition, continuing her long-standing role as a knight errant even as she prepares for the arrival of her child. The investigation draws her back into the fae politics of the Kingdom of the Mists at a moment when she can least afford the usual risks of her work, forcing her to weigh her duty to recover the artifacts against the need to protect herself and the child she is carrying.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 19 of 19 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Awards (verified)
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2017: nominated; Series-level nomination, recorded against the series' most recent Core book at the time, per this canon's series-award convention.
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2019: nominated; Series-level nomination; see the 2017 entry's note on this canon's series-award convention.
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2021: nominated; Series-level nomination; lost to The Murderbot Diaries.
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2023: nominated; Series-level nomination; lost to Children of Time.
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2024: nominated; Series-level nomination; lost to Imperial Radch.
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2026: nominated; Series-level finalist; result not yet announced (2026-08-12) -- ceremony scheduled 2026-08-30. Recorded as 'nominated' pending that result; revisit and correct to 'won' if it wins.
Notes
- From the series record (October Daye): Long-running urban fantasy series; the main novel sequence only. Distinct from McGuire's Wayward Children. Numerous companion novellas/short stories exist and were not researched.
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 October Daye: position 19 of 19: previous The Innocent Sleep (2023)
Sources
- Seanan McGuire's own site: The October Daye Books
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Daye
- The Hugo Awards: 2017 Hugo Awards
- The Hugo Awards, 2019
- The Hugo Awards: 2021 Hugo Awards history
- Wikipedia: Hugo Award for Best Series
- The Hugo Awards: 2026 Hugo Awards history
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