Description
Max Gladstone returns with The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which The Washington Post calls the best kind of urban fantasy and NPR calls sharp, original, and passionate
The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren't looking, a squidlike tower dominates the skyline, and the foreign Iskari Rectification Authority keeps strict order in this once-independent city--while treasure seekers, criminals, combat librarians, nightmare artists, angels, demons, dispossessed knights, grad students, and other fools gather in its ever-changing alleys, hungry for the next big score. Priestess/investment banker Kai Pohala (last seen in Full Fathom Five) hits town to corner Agdel Lex's burgeoning nightmare startup scene, and to visit her estranged sister Lei. But Kai finds Lei desperate at the center of a shadowy, and rapidly unravelling, business deal. When Lei ends up on the run, wanted for a crime she most definitely committed, Kai races to track her sister down before the Authority finds her first. But Lei has her own plans, involving her ex-girlfriend, a daring heist into the god-haunted desert, and, perhaps, freedom for an occupied city. Because Alikand might not be completely dead--and some people want to finish the job.Author: Max Gladstone
Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780765395894
ISBN10: 0765395894
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Urban
- Fiction | Fantasy | Contemporary
- Fiction | Fantasy | Action & Adventure
About the Author
MAX GLADSTONE went to Yale, where he wrote a short story that became a finalist in the Writers of the Future competition. He is the author of the Craft Sequence and the showrunner for Book Burners. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award a is two-time finalist for the John W. Campbell Award. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.