- Imaginary places, Magic, Nobility, Fiction
The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort. -- amazon.com
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth Bear
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 366
- Publisher
- TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates book
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765380135
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