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New edition of Storm Constantine's visionary science fantasy novel. Casmeer is the only living soul left in Thermidore, high atop the mountains of Overhang. So it has been for hundreds of years. Immortal historian and chronicler, Casmeer is the self-appointed keeper of the city's remains and its crystalline inhabitants. Finnigin is a young terranaut, whose people collect the crystal fragments from Thermidore that wash down from the mountains to use as pilot stones to guide the floating cities across the Flatlands. Finnigin is forced to leave his people on an initiation of manhood, to journey across the plains and confront the mystery of the pilot stones. Ays is a Priest of Hands, a consoler to the dying, in the floating city of Min. His faith shaken by the words of a dying man, he undertakes a journey of his own, and leaves his flying city to face the unknown on the Flatlands. But as both Ays and Finnigin travel throughout their world, they are haunted by a mysterious figure who seems to know more about them than they do themselves. When Ays and Finnigin cross paths, they find their lives linked in ways they could not have imagined. While in Thermidore, Casmeer, the last immortal, has one last chronicle to write. Storm Constantine is a literary fantast of outstanding power and originality. . .Calenture [is] exotic, erotic and packed with surprises. - Michael Moorcock This is fantasy that lives and breathes. . . and leaves the reader a little wiser when the last page is turned. -Locus Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The novel involves a story within a story. Casmeer is the last living inhabitant of Thermidore. All the others have undergone a sickness that turns them to crystal. Casmeer protects their crystal bodies from being broken apart by plumosites, half bird and half monkey creatures that are drawn to the crystal. Casmeer is the writer of the inner, main story. His novel is set in a surreal, medieval-like, fantasy world where cities fly or move about on walkers. The moving cities are guided by terranauts, who lay a path of pilot stones (the crystal hearts of people from the outer story). The two main characters in Casmeer's story are Ays, a priest of the Hands, and Finnigin, a young terranaut.
This is one of the strangest books I have read for a long time. SC's imagination is pretty amazing and she writes well. I struggled to make sense of things for much of the book but I did enjoy the story and was moved by it. Well worth reading. ( )