This first volume of a new Eternal Sky trilogy takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south, into the Lotus Kingdoms. The Gage, a brass automaton created by a long-dead wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being, works as a mercenary. He carries 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 bodyguard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort. They are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of the shattered bits of a once great Empire.

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

About the Author
Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.


Book Information
ISBN 9780765380142
Author Elizabeth Bear
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Tor Books
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 403g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 154mm * 26mm