The Skies Discrowned (Forsake the Sky) & An Epitaph in Rust

✍ Scribed by Powers, Tim

• Book ID: 108736740
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 741 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781480434011

✦ Synopsis

A special two-in-one edition by World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick award-winner Tim Powers, featuring The Skies Discrowned,about an oppressed universe in the violent throes of political revolt, and An Epitaph in Rust, which carries the reader to a future California rife with dark conspiracies and Shakespearean-caliber plotsAt the start of his celebrated career--before his widespread acclamation as one of the most original contemporary fantasists in America--Tim Powers published a pair of exciting science fiction adventures. Long considered lost classics, these two novels were early indications that a true master had arrived on the science fiction/fantasy scene.In The Skies Discrowned, a young artist and swordsman becomes a political criminal, marked for death after witnessing an assassination. Francisco Rovzar's strange odyssey through his planet's lawless underworld and his transformation from na\u00efve young boy to hardened freedom fighter is an intriguing adventure...