Book description
The poets and their magical andat have protected the cities of the
Khaiem against their rivals in Galt for generations. Otah, Khai of the
Winter City of Machi, has tried for years to prepare his people for a
future in which the andat can no longer be safely harnessed. But his
warnings have been ignored, and now it's too late. A ruthless,
charismatic Galtic general believes he has found a way to strip the
andat of their power. If he is wrong, Galt will be destroyed. If he is
right, the Khaiem will fall. Only one thing is certain: conflict is
inevitable, and Otah and his old friend and enemy the disgraced poet,
Maati, must fight a desperate battle to protect their cities from
slaughter. These two men, bound together by shadow and betrayal, will
bring the world to the edge of a cataclysm unlike anything either side
had imagined. For if the cost of war is high, the price of peace may be
unimaginable . . . Daniel Abraham's short stories have been nominated
for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards and included in Gardner Dozois's
Year's Best Science Fiction anthology. He lives in New Mexico with his
wife and daughter.
