The Empire of Unreason (Age of Unreason) - Softcover

Keyes, Gregory J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345406095 ISBN 13: 9780345406095

Publisher: Del Rey Books, 2000

Synopsis

While Europe lays devastated by an asteroid and North America plagued by a new ice age, Benjamin Franklin leads a group of survivors against the alien Malakim. Original.

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About the Author

J. Gregory Keyes is a teacher at the University of Georgia and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the anthropology of belief system and mythology. He was born in Mississippi and raised there and on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He is the author ofThe Waterborn and The Blackgod as well as the acclaimed Age of Unreason series.

There has never been an epic quite like that created by J. Gregory Keyes in the first two books of his Age of Unreason saga. With a stunningly original blend of alternate history, fantasy, and science fiction, Keyes has vividly reimagined the eighteenth century and brought it brilliantly to life. Now his unforgettable adventure shifts from Europe to the tumultuous shores of the New World . . .


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ac Newton uncovered the secrets of alchemy, he could never have imagined the incredible and tragic results. Dark sorcery rules: Europe is lost and the American colonists have been driven south by advancing ice. In an age of unreason, Benjamin Franklin and his secret society, the Junto, manage a precarious existence founded on the mutual trust and cooperation of Native Americans, whites, and freed blacks. But the demonic creatures known as the Malekim won't tolerate even a flicker of hope. For any who oppose them--Franklin, Voltaire, even the mysterious daughters of Lilith--will be swept away . . .

Though Tsar Peter the Great of Russia has mysteriously vanished, his vast armies and dark magics remain. They strike where they are least expected, unleashing cyclopean forces unseen on Earth since before the fall of mighty Babylon. And even this is but a prelude to he who follows the living storm.

As armies and alchemy clash in the southern coloni

Edition details

• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345406095
• ISBN 13: 9780345406095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368