- Insects, Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction, fantasy
The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities who refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 505
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC, Pan Macmillan, Tor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781306934053
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“He was Kadro, Master Kadro of the Great College of the city of Collegium, which was half a world away and no help to him now.”
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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