- Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Epic literature, Imaginary wars and battles
The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual--a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality--but Uctebri has his own plans for both the Emperor and the Empire.
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Grave, epic, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 469
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC, Pan Macmillan, Tor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616142391
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“Why do these things always come to plague us?”
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.
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