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y separately published work icon Unwrapped Sky single work   novel   fantasy  
Is part of Caeli-Amur Novels 2014 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Unwrapped Sky
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'A hundred years ago, the Minotaurs saved Caeli-Amur from conquest. Now, three very different people may hold the keys to the city’s survival.

'Once, it is said, gods used magic to create reality, with powers that defied explanation. But the magic—or science, if one believes those who try to master the dangers of thaumaturgy—now seems more like a dream.

'Industrial workers for House Technis, farmers for House Arbor and fisher folk of House Marin eke out a living and hope for a better future. But the philosopher-assassin Kata plots a betrayal that will cost the lives of godlike Minotaurs; the ambitious bureaucrat Boris Autec rises through the ranks as his private life turns to ashes; and the idealistic seditionist Maximilan hatches a mad plot to unlock the fabled secrets of the Great Library of Caeli Enas, drowned in the fabled city at the bottom of the sea, its strangeness visible from the skies above.

'In a novel of startling originality and riveting suspense, these three people, reflecting all the hopes and dreams of the ancient city, risk everything tor a future that they can only create by throwing off the shackles of tradition and superstition, as their destinies collide at ground zero of a conflagration that will transform the ancient city... or destroy it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Maryellen. Alistair, and Francesca
  • Epigraph:

    Behold what quiet settles on the world,
    Night wraps the sky in tribute form the stars,
    In hours like this, one rises to address
    The ages, history, and all creation.

    –Valdimir Mayakovsky, "Past One O'Clock"

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Tor ,
      2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 480pp.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 April 2014.
      ISBN: 1447252365, 9781447252368

Works about this Work

The Class Strugle in a Weird World Kirsten Tranter , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 June 2014; (p. 35) The Age , 14-15 June 2014; (p. 35)

— Review of Unwrapped Sky Rjurik Davidson , 2014 single work novel
The Class Strugle in a Weird World Kirsten Tranter , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 June 2014; (p. 35) The Age , 14-15 June 2014; (p. 35)

— Review of Unwrapped Sky Rjurik Davidson , 2014 single work novel
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