Synopses & Reviews
The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Saraykeht, though, has always been too strong for the Galts to attack, but now they see an opportunity. If they can dispose of Heshai, Seedless's bonded poet-sorcerer, Seedless will perish and the entire city will fall. With secret forces inside the city, the Galts prepare to enact their terrible plan.
In the middle is Otah, a simple laborer with a complex past. Recruited to act as a bodyguard for his girlfriend's boss at a secret meeting, he inadvertently learns of the Galtish plot. Otah finds himself as the sole hope of Saraykeht, either he stops the Galts, or the whole city and everyone in it perishes forever.
Review
"A thoroughly engrossing debut novel from a major new fantasist. A poignant human tale of power, heartbreak, and betrayal."
George R.R. Martin
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"An architecturally-perfect fantasy world filled with a fascinating, highly distinctive set of characters."
Walter Jon Williams
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A Shadow in Summer is a thoroughly engrossing debut novel from a major new fantasist. A poignant human tale of power, heartbreak, and betrayal." --George R.R. Martin
"A Shadow in Summer is one of the most elegant and engaging fantasies I've read in years, based on an intriguing, original premise. I eagerly await the remaining volumes in Daniel Abraham's the Long Price Quartet." --Jacqueline Carey
"From the opening lines, A Shadow in Summer carries us into an exotic, fantastic, yet utterly convincing world. Bravo! I look forward to the next book in the series." --Morgan Llywelyn
"Reader, be warned: If you open Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, he will lead you into a strange, seductive world of beatings and poets and betrayals, intrigues you do not fully understand and wars you cannot stop and places you are not sure you want to go. Intricate, elegant, and almost hypnotically told, this tale of gods held captive will hold you captive, too." --Connie Willis, Hugo Award-winning author of To Say Nothing of the Dog
"In a world of bloated fantasy clones, Abraham's voice is fresh and startlingly new; not only is his worldbuilding original, but the characters who inhabit the universe he's created are both strange and fully human" --S. M. Sterling on A Shadow in Summer
"In addition to the creation of an architecturally-perfect fantasy world filled with a fascinating, highly distinctive set of characters, Daniel Abraham has introduced into fantasy one brilliant, stunning new idea, a magic system in which the Word is made Flesh." --Walter Jon Williams on A Shadow in Summer
Review
"One of the most elegant and engaging fantasies I've read in years, based on an intriguing, original premise."
Jacqueline Carey
Review
"Carries us into an exotic, fantastic, yet utterly convincing world. Bravo! I look forward to the next book."
Morgan Llywelyn
Review
"Intricate, elegant, and almost hypnotically told, this tale of gods held captive will hold you captive, too."
Connie Willis, Hugo Award-winning author of To Say Nothing of the Dog
Review
"In a world of bloated fantasy clones, Abraham's voice is fresh and startlingly new."
S. M. Stirling
Review
"
A Shadow in Summer is a thoroughly engrossing debut novel from a major new fantasist. A poignant human tale of power, heartbreak, and betrayal."
--George R.R. Martin
"A Shadow in Summer is one of the most elegant and engaging fantasies I've read in years, based on an intriguing, original premise. I eagerly await the remaining volumes in Daniel Abraham's the Long Price Quartet."
--Jacqueline Carey
"From the opening lines, A Shadow in Summer carries us into an exotic, fantastic, yet utterly convincing world. Bravo! I look forward to the next book in the series."
--Morgan Llywelyn
"Reader, be warned: If you open Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, he will lead you into a strange, seductive world of beatings and poets and betrayals, intrigues you do not fully understand and wars you cannot stop and places you are not sure you want to go. Intricate, elegant, and almost hypnotically told, this tale of gods held captive will hold you captive, too."
--Connie Willis, Hugo Award-winning author of To Say Nothing of the Dog
"In a world of bloated fantasy clones, Abraham's voice is fresh and startlingly new; not only is his worldbuilding original, but the characters who inhabit the universe he's created are both strange and fully human"
--S. M. Sterling on A Shadow in Summer
"In addition to the creation of an architecturally-perfect fantasy world filled with a fascinating, highly distinctive set of characters, Daniel Abraham has introduced into fantasy one brilliant, stunning new idea, a magic system in which the Word is made Flesh."
--Walter Jon Williams on A Shadow in Summer
Synopsis
The start of an epic fantasy series by one of the field's hottest new talents
Synopsis
The start of an epic fantasy series by one of the field's hottest new talents
About the Author
DANIEL ABRAHAM has had stories published in the
Vanishing Acts,
Bones of the World, and
The Dark anthologies, and has been included in Gardner Dozois's
Year's Best Science Fiction anthology as well.
A Shadow in Summer is his first novel. He is currently working on the Long Price Quartet, the second volume of which,
Winter Cities, will be published in 2007. He lives in New Mexico with his wife.