- Fiction, science fiction
A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it). But Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, for his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon…
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Classical in form, contemporary, epic and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tordotcom
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250768711
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“Nobody climbed the mountain beyond the war-shrine.”
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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