The Grand Ellipse

✍ Scribed by Volsky, Paula

• Book ID: 110484874
• Publisher: Spectra
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 732 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307784278

✦ Synopsis

Review

In a Victorianesque world of gaslights and steam engines, where magic is a memory becoming increasingly dim with the passage of years, there exists a woman named Luzelle Devaire. Luzelle seeks to break out of the stunted world that she finds herself thrust into, because of her sex. An escape presents itself when "Mad" Miltzin IX, king of Lower Hetzia, proclaims a round the world race, with the prize of a Lower Hetzian barony and a private audience with the king.

The Vonahrish government
offers to finance Luzelle's inclusion in the race, so long as she uses
her audience to plead with Miltzin IX to sell them the secret to
"sentient fire." With the Grewzian Imperium set to take over the whole
world, sentient fire may be just the weapon needed to allow Vonahr to
survive. With so much at stake, Luzelle enters the race. But, surrounded
by so many other contestants, each determined to win at all costs, what
are Luzelle's chances?