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Above the Snowline
Steph Swainston
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Description for Above the Snowline
Paperback. This is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. .
This is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels. This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate. As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin. ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473222007
SKU
V9781473222007
Shipping Time
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99-10
About Steph Swainston
Steph Swainston is a qualified archaeologist with a degree from Cambridge and a research degree. She worked as archaeologist for six years, working on the dig that researched the oldest recorded burial site in the UK, before working as an information scientist. She lives in Wokingham.
Reviews for Above the Snowline
Steph Swainston's writing is as elegantly superior to most other fantasy as a samurai sword is to a flint dagger Honest-to-god unputdownable. A blistering debut A stunning fantasy, and the most incredible thing about it is that it is a first novel... The setting is impeccably realised, with a deftness of touch and a genius for description which would be impressive in an author of considerably greater experience - of the current crop of British fantasy writers, only China Mi (c)ville can touch this level of brilliance. In fifty years time, people are still going to be reading this book and talking about it the way we talk about Gormengast
INK MAGAZINE A joy to read, it is bursting at the seams with ideas. The Year of Our War is the first book that makes you believe New Weird actually is a movement, rather than a bunch of books China Mieville likes. A Mieville quote appears prominently on the cover where he describes the book as thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered. This is true and it doubles as a kind of manifesto pledge for New Weird
SF SITE Swainston combines light and dark, gore and grime with cheeky humour
SFX Swainston paints a world that is vividly rendered, detailed and surprisingly gritty. Imaginative, inventive and wholly thrilling stuff
SCI FI NOW
INK MAGAZINE A joy to read, it is bursting at the seams with ideas. The Year of Our War is the first book that makes you believe New Weird actually is a movement, rather than a bunch of books China Mieville likes. A Mieville quote appears prominently on the cover where he describes the book as thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered. This is true and it doubles as a kind of manifesto pledge for New Weird
SF SITE Swainston combines light and dark, gore and grime with cheeky humour
SFX Swainston paints a world that is vividly rendered, detailed and surprisingly gritty. Imaginative, inventive and wholly thrilling stuff
SCI FI NOW