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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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Review:
"Extraordinary.stunning.compelling.seriously new. . Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention." -- Locus
"Vibrant, colourful, tirelessly inventive and effortlessly weird, Stephanie Swainston has thrown the map away."--M. John Harrison
"Swainston's first novel brings a bold new vision to the fantasy genre, combining classic fantasy elements with imaginative new images."--Library Journal
"Extraordinary...stunning...compelling...seriously new. ... Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention."--Locus
Thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered: a blistering debut, and honest-to-God unputdownable. --China Mi?ville, author of Perdido Street Station"
Swainston s first novel brings a bold new vision to the fantasy genre, combining classic fantasy elements with imaginative new images. --Library Journal"
Vibrant, colourful, tirelessly inventive and effortlessly weird, Stephanie Swainston has thrown the map away. --M. John Harrison"
Extraordinary stunning compelling seriously new. Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention. --Locus"
"Thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered: a blistering debut, and honest-to-God unputdownable."--China Mieville, author of Perdido Street Station
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"Vibrant, colourful, tirelessly inventive and effortlessly weird, Stephanie Swainston has thrown the map away."--M. John Harrison
"Swainston's first novel brings a bold new vision to the fantasy genre, combining classic fantasy elements with imaginative new images."--Library Journal
"Extraordinary...stunning...compelling...seriously new. ... Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention."--Locus
Thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered: a blistering debut, and honest-to-God unputdownable. --China Mi?ville, author of Perdido Street Station"
Swainston s first novel brings a bold new vision to the fantasy genre, combining classic fantasy elements with imaginative new images. --Library Journal"
Vibrant, colourful, tirelessly inventive and effortlessly weird, Stephanie Swainston has thrown the map away. --M. John Harrison"
Extraordinary stunning compelling seriously new. Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention. --Locus"
"Thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered: a blistering debut, and honest-to-God unputdownable."--China Mieville, author of Perdido Street Station
The most exciting, original and important new fantasy novel to be published since China Mieville's PERDIDO STREET STATION. A breathtakingly skilful debut.
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- PublisherTandem Library
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1417701889
- ISBN 13 9781417701889
- BindingHardcover
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