The stone in the skull

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Bear

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 460 KB
• Series: Lotus Kingdoms 1
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0765380145

✦ Synopsis

Hugo Award -winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy.

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Best SFF Books 2017 --The Guardian
** Kirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017
** The Verge Recommended Fantasy for 2017

The Stone in the Skull , the first volume in her new trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south into the Lotus Kingdoms.

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 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.

They are walking...

✦ Subjects

Voyages and travels -- Fiction