![]() ![]() Gregory Keyes’s Age of Unreason series, brilliantly combined the best of alternate history, fantasy, and science fiction in a bravura reimagining of the tempestuous eighteenth century. Newton’s Cannon, the critically acclaimed first volume in J. ![]() Small wonder that the princess wished for a hero. Hezhi’s anxious quest ripened into a desperate fight for her own life a battle she could not hope to win alone. And the magic within her began to grow soon it must attract dangerous attention. When her favorite cousin disappeared, Hezhi searched throughout the sumptuous palace with its ghosts and priests, giants and courtiers, and frightening creatures of wizardry. Hezhi was an imperial princess her blood carried the seeds of the River’s power. ![]() And in Nhol, the fabled city at the heart of the world, an emperor ruled as the living aspect of the god, presiding over the splendors and intrigues of a prosperous land and a glittering court. ![]() Everywhere he touched, the River God held dominion. Dark and sluggish, he rolled unchallenged, dreaming his own invincible might and glory into stark reality. His head was in the mountains his arms embraced the outlands his body lay at the core of all the civilized realms and his legs stretched on to the distant sea. The River flowed through all the land, deep and unstoppable, a god in his own right. ![]()
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