- Fiction, fantasy, general, English literature
Despite their tenuous peace, Stenwold Maker knows the Empire will return to Collegium. Yet even as he prepares the city for battle, these efforts are sabotaged. Ships sailing from Collegium's harbour are sunk by pirates, while others just go missing.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 720
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Tor
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529050363
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“Above all, what the boy remembered was the rushing of the waters as his head finally broke through.”
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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