A River From the Sky
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Titan Books Ltd
Publishing:6th Apr '27
£8.99
This title is due to be published on 6th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the Nebula and Bram Stoker Award®-winning author comes the lyrical and moving science-fantasy follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind, as Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world. For readers of Nghi Vo, Amal El-Mohtar and Kritika H. Rao.
Fleeing from the Palace and crashing into the waters below its steep walls, Lufeng and her siblings reach Gear, with its huge deadly water wheels, where their sister Sangshu is waiting for them. In the chaos of the enormous waves, within moments they're snatched away and taken into rebel territory, where they learn more of the deadly experiments Zinc has wreaked upon the people.
Loyal to Copper now, Sangshu herself is a victim of Zinc's experiments. Desperate to find her family, she races through Gear to Engine, ruthless Zinc's industrial heartland, where she burns with a desire to fix her own mistakes and those of others and find a way to save her world.
This powerful, beautifully told novella explores the bonds of family, the pain of leaving all you have known behind, and the terrible price of our industrial future.
Praise for A Palace Near the Wind:
Enchanting, mysterious, and strange, A Palace Near the Wind is a heartbreaking story of homecoming and self-discovery. Combining the best of folklore and science fiction, this eco-narrative on human greed and superhuman hope is not to be missed.
-Kritika H. Rao, author of The Surviving Sky
A fantastic and magical tale of survival and rebellion set against the backdrop of a struggle between nature and the forces of industry. Ai Jiang has written a beautiful and all too-fitting story that resonates with the choices we face in our times.
-P. DjËlÌ Clark, author of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins and A Master of Djinn
A breathtakingly imagined story of ecological disaster, torn families, betrayal, and hope. Unlike anything I've ever read before-like Ghibli retelling Tolkien through Chinese myth-with tree-like deities, political intrigue, wind magic, and mecha. Utterly enchanting.
-A.Y. Chao, author of Shanghai Immortal
Beautifully written and intricately layered, this novella is part fairy tale and part tale of rebellion and hope. A compelling and complex story of court politics, hidden secrets, sacrifices, alliances, and characters fighting for their freedom.
-A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling and Hooked
Haunting and lovely, Jiang creates a world of wonder in A Palace Near the Wind. Your heart will break as Lufeng must give up her home, her beliefs, and her sense of family. You'll root for her as she builds her courage to forge a new future for herself, and those precious to her.
-Julia Vee, co-author of The Phoenix Hoard trilogy
Elegant and otherworldly. A tale of family and duty, devotion and obligation - and the shattering secrets hidden in every past. A glorious new myth from a talented new voice.
-A.G. Slatter, author of All the Murmuring Bones and The Briar Book of the Dead
A beautiful, heart-rending parable about the ways grief and loss feed on the vitality of the living, eventually making ghosts of us all.
-Gareth L. Powell, author of Stars and Bones and Future's Edge
ISBN: 9781803369549
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 55mm
Weight: 255g
176 pages