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The Empire's mightty imperial armies are marching on Collegium once more. They've learnt from past failures and this time their Empress will brook no weakness. Stenwold Maker's aviators still dominate the skies, but their rule will soon be over.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 736
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Tor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780230771406
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“He had never seen the sea, but the vast expanse of green beneath him was what he imagined the sea to be like.”
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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