- fiction, demonology, Human sacrifice, Aztecs
IT IS THE YEAR ONE-KNIFE IN TENOCHTITLAN - THE CAPITAL OF THE AZTECS. The end of the world is kept at bay only by the magic of human sacrifice. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. Acatl, High Priest of the Dead must find her, or break the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead. But how do you find someone, living or dead, in a world where blood sacrifices are an everyday occurrence and the very gods stalk the streets?
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Aliette de Bodard
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 431
- Publisher
- First American Paperback Printing, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Angry Robot
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007346547
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Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer specializing in image processing and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
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