Obsidian Mirror - Hardcover

Fisher, Catherine

3.68

2,368 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803739699 ISBN 13: 9780803739697

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2013

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The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is whatwill happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and save his life. But only one can succeed.

The mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back.

With superb world-building that includes the real world, the faery world, and a dystopic future, this hauntingly astonishing adventure is the start of a new trilogy from the master of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, Catherine Fisher. Fans of Orson Scott Card, Dr. Who, Shakespeare, and Blade Runner won't be disappointed.

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Review:

Catherine Fisher, author of the brilliant Incarceron and Sapphique books, embarks on an ambitious new series...a riveting read where nothing is quite what it seems (welovethisbook.com)

A genre buster...a great set-up for what promises to be a fantastic fantasy series (The Bookbag)

A riveting read that will leave you impatient for the next instalment (Peters Gazette)

A tale that effortlessly combines a number of narratives, voices, and modes of storytelling...moves at breakneck pace and constantly springs surprises (Books for Keeps)

[A] time travelling, historical, supernatural thriller, with replicants, fairies, crazed scientists, changelings, wolves, genies and Dickensian waifs...Don't ask, just enjoy. (Financial Times)

Time travel and the faery world collide in the first book in a stunning new sequence from the best-selling author (Western Mail (Cardiff))

Dark and scary with a fast moving narrative and imaginative characters...an intricate plot...a real page turner for teenagers (Carousel)

Clever, complex and sophisticated...Fisher not only interweaves strands of dystopian Science fiction with fairy tale, but expertly crafts a story of loss with the bittersweet and tantalising prospect of time travel fixing everything...The book is a tangled web and Fisher jumps from scene to scene with cliff hanger moments urging the reader to unlock her puzzle...With a movie of her acclaimed novel Incarceron soon to be released, Fisher is definitely an author to watch (School Librarian)

Fisher's universe is wholly envisaged...bleak, brittle and brilliant (Literary Review)

A new novel by catherine Fisher, poet and prize-winning novelist, is always a treat...The Obsidian
Mirror is both thriller and Science fiction and -- being written in Fisher's acid prose -- is equally satisfying to fans of both genres

(The Times)

Book Description:

Time travel and the faery world collide in the first book in a stunning new sequence from the bestselling author of INCARCERON - for which film rights have been sold to the producer of THE GOLDEN COMPASS.

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