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A Shadow in Summer: Book One of the Long Price Quartet Paperback - 2007

Name: A Shadow In Summer
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Author: Abraham, Daniel,
ISBN: 9781250297488

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The first novel of an epic fantasy series by one of the fields hottest new talents. "[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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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.

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Title A Shadow in Summer: Book One of the Long Price Quartet
Author Daniel Abraham
Binding Paperback
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date 2007-07-31
Features Maps
ISBN 9781250297488 / 1250297486
Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.85 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.16 cm)
Category Fiction - Fantasy
Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Magic
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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 lives in New Mexico with his wife.