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No Present Like Time

By: Steph Swainston

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The incredible follow-up to Steph Swainston's acclaimed first novel, The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time is a superb work of literary fantasy. God is still on vacation, the Emperor still leads the war against the insects, and his cadre of immortals is still quarreling among themselves. But a new land has been discovered, one that holds the secrets of centuries, and one of their own, now exiled, foments rebellion against the Circle. In the brutal battle that follows, Jant Comet will discover that even immortals can fall. . . . Wildly inventive, engaging, and witty, Steph Swainston's trilogy is building to be a landmark of modern imagination.

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Harper Collins

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0061900044

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9780061900044

The Year of Our War

By: Steph Swainston

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The Year of Our War

By: Steph Swainston

Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and regress in the ever-escalating conflict between man and the awful armies of giant, flesh-devouring insects. But while Jant's duty is to remain neutral in the petty squabbles and power plays of the fifty who will neither age nor die naturally, bitter rivalries that have festered for centuries now threaten to incite a savage civil war. And Jant may be the only being alive capable of stemming the onrushing tide of destruction and the unstoppable insect infestation. For only he can gain entrance -- through extreme doses of the narcotic that owns his soul -- into a place of darkest wonders and revelations; a strange and horrific alternate reality that none but Jant Comet believes exists. A literary triumph of the first water -- bold, stylish, and breathtakingly original -- Steph Swainston's The Year of Our War ascends like a rocket to the upper reaches of the imagination and loudly heralds the arrival of a true modern master of the fantastic.

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402

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Zondervan

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006190046X

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9780061900464

Above the Snowline

By: Steph Swainston

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Above the Snowline

By: Steph Swainston

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.

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317

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Gollancz

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0575086769

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9780575086760

The Castle Omnibus

The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time, The Modern World

By: Steph Swainston

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The Castle Omnibus

The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time, The Modern World

By: Steph Swainston

50 immortals, chosen by the emperor lead humanity in an endless war against hordes of ginant insects. Their immortality, conferred on them by the emperror can be taken away if they lose a challange to be part of the circle of 50. Jant, the emperor's drug-addicted messanger, the only man who can fly, tells the story of mankinds savage fight for survival in a uniquely imagined, beautiful fantasy world.

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880

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Gollancz

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1473212545

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9781473212541

Fair Rebel

By: Steph Swainston

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Fair Rebel

By: Steph Swainston

In the fifth book in the Castle series, Steph Swainston returns to her uniquely imagined fantasy world. Fifteen years after the last devastating Insect attack, the immortal Circle is finally ready to launch an offensive against their implacable enemies. This time they have a new weapon - gunpowder. Hopes are high. But the Circle's plans are threatened when the vital barrels of gunpowder go missing. Jant, the Circle's winged messenger, is tasked to investigate. Soon it becomes clear that the theft is part of a deadly conspiracy . . . and Jant and his friends are among the targets. As tensions rise, Jant races to foil the conspirators. Can he expose them in time - or will the crisis blow the Fourlands apart?

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321

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Gollancz

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0575086777

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9780575086777

Above the Snowline

By: Steph Swainston

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Dangerous Offspring

By: Steph Swainston

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Dangerous Offspring

By: Steph Swainston

Steph Swainston returns to the dazzling, dizzying world of the Fourlands with the audacious sequel to her acclaimed novels The Year of Our War and No Present Like Time. Jant Comet, the messenger, has survived deadly insects, internecine politics, and even his own debilitating, life-threatening addiction. But now he faces a challenge greater than any he has met in the last several centuries, one that could shake the foundations of the Fourlands forever. For the Emperor himself is riding to the front, and nothing is as it seems . . .

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Harper Collins

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0061899720

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Book's by Steph Swainston

No Present Like Time

No Present Like Time

The Year of Our War

The Year of Our War

Above the Snowline

Above the Snowline

The Castle Omnibus

The Castle Omnibus

Fair Rebel

Fair Rebel

Above the Snowline

Above the Snowline

Dangerous Offspring

Dangerous Offspring

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