The House of Storms
by MacLeod, Ian R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0441012809
- ISBN 13
- 9780441012800
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
New York: Ace Hardcover, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A tight clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscrip tions, not price clipped, or an ex-lib; The successor to the superb Light Ages (2003) depicts MacLeod's alternate Victorian society as more advanced technologically but with magic still strong in it. Alice Meynell, greatmistress of the Telegraphers' Guild, is about ready to turn to magic to save her son and heir, Ralph, from consumption, for all medical remedies have failed. She hopes that the sea air at Invercombe on the west coast of England will help, and she puts even more hope in the magic that may still linger there, centered around a community of changelings. One of those changelings once loved Alice, and a bargain is struck so that Ralph regains health. Consequently, Alice regains the hope of a dynasty. But then Ralph falls in love with a servant girl, and that so threatens his mother's plans that she sets in motion powerful countermagic that in turn threatens the basis of society. MacLeod has again imagined and written superbly, and be it noted that his erotic scenes should be the envy of many of his professional peers.
Synopsis
Darkness encroaches upon the Age of Light as Ian R. MacLeod's "electrifying" (Interzone) epic continues.
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- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000009397
- Title
- The House of Storms
- Author
- MacLeod, Ian R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0441012809
- ISBN 13
- 9780441012800
- Publisher
- Ace Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
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