From award-winning, bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire. In four interrelated parts, this is an evocative and epic story of resistance and heroic sacrifice in the twisted remains surrounding the last great city of Khaim - a decadent and rotting empire facing environmental collapse from within - and yet hope emerges from unlikely places with women warriors and alchemical solutions. Print run 75,000.
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