- Fantasy fiction, Adventure stories, Magic, Paranormal fiction
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Saladin Ahmed, Phil Gigante
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Brilliance Audio, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575132931
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Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Ahmed's fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2 and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He is currently the writer of Miles Morales: Spider-Man[5] and has previously written other series for Marvel Comics such as Black Bolt, Exiles and The Magnificent Ms. Marvel. He is also the co-creator of the comic series Abbott
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