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The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear

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The Stone in the Skull
Elizabeth Bear

Tor Books
May 2019
On Sale: April 30, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 0765380145
EAN: 9780765380142
Kindle: B06XRJHX3Z
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Fantasy

The Stone in the Skull, the first volume in her new trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south into the Lotus Kingdoms.

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 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.

They are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of the shattered bits of a once great Empire.

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