- Imaginary places, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, general
"Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow; for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel's shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet"--Publisher.
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- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- J. Gregory Keyes
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Del Rey, Titan Books Ltd, Timun Mas Narrativa
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788448038571
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Keyes was born in Meridian, Mississippi, as John Gregory Keyes, to a large, diverse, storytelling family. He received degrees in anthropology from Mississippi State University and the University of Georgia before becoming a full-time writer. Gregory Keyes (born April 11, 1963) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names J. Gregory Keyes and Greg Keyes. He is famous for his tetralogy The Age of Unreason, a steampunk/alchemical story featuring Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Newton. He wrote the Babylon 5 Psi Corps trilogy, a history of the Psi Corps and a biography of Psi Corps member Alfred Bester. In 2003 he be
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