Where the seasons last for generations, hard winter makes
for hard religion. The worlds of the solar system are the
hells through which all souls must incarnate on their
journey to Paradise; all, that is, but the Starbridges,
nobles who serve to enforce the "divine will." In the lowest
slums of the city-state of Charn, a Starbridge doctor and a
drunken prince defy the law to bring medicine to the poor
and hear the story-music of the refugee Antinomials, a wild
people who shun words, infidels pressed to the edge of
extinction. As a decades-long pitched battle approaches the
city and the Bishop of Charn herself is condemned for
impurity, the doctor and the prince will follow their
compassion into the heart of a revolution, just on the eve
of spring, with its strange and treacherous sugar rain.
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