Book description
The grand conflict for control of the continent of Derlavai rages on,
in a battle with all the drama and terror of the Second World War-only
the bullets are beams of magical fire, the tanks and submarines are
great lumbering beasts, and the fighters and bombers are dragons raining
fire upon their targets.
Yet hope may be dawning at last. The terrible onslaught of the
conquering forces of Algarve-who power their battle magics with the life
energy of their murdered victims-begins to founder as it runs into
Habbakuk: a sorcerous ship of ice used by embattled nations of Lagoas
and Kuusamo to ferry their deadly dragons across the seas to strike at
the very heart of Algarvian power.
But though the tide has begun to turn, the conflict is far from over.
The widely disdained Kaunians still struggle desperately to escape as
the Algarvians kill them by the thousands-for life energy, but also
simply for the crime of being Kaunian. And as the deaths of innocent
civilians on both sides continue to feed the flames of war, those who
have struggled to survive and preserve their freedom have only their
passions to see them through. . . . Harry Turtledove (1949 - ) Harry
Turtledove was born in Los Angeles in 1949, and has a PhD in Byzantine
history. He has taught ancient and medieval history at a number of
universities including UCLA, and has published a translation of a
ninth-century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several scholarly
articles. A full-time science fiction writer since 1991, he is best
known for his rigorously researched alternative history, such as the
classic The Guns of the South, in which the Confederacy wins the
American Civil War. Harry Turtledove is married to novelist Laura
Frankos, and lives in Los Angeles.
