The Stone in the Skull

, #1

366 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-8013-7
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OCLC Number:
1005140680

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The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort. -- amazon.com

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reviewed The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear (The Lotus Kingdoms, #1)

Nothing Much Happens

Beautiful writing, but almost nothing happens. It feels like it's setting up a great story for the subsequent novels, but I'm not pleased going through an entire book just to get the setup.

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Subjects

  • Imaginary places
  • Magic
  • Nobility
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy