Description
Arrested by the Ald, scholar Bon Ugane and merwoman Leki Borle find themselves on a prison ship bound for the island of Skythe - a barren land and the site of long-ago wars.
Warped and ruined by the ancient conflict, survival on the island is tough and its original inhabitants are neither friendly nor entirely still human. But something else waits on the island, a living weapon whose very existence is a heresy. Destroyed many years ago, it silently begins to clutch at life once more.
* Author website at www.timlebbon.net * Featured on orbitbooks.net and in Orbit ezine * Review copies mailed to genre press/online reviewers
About the Author
Tim Lebbon has won the Bram Stoker Award for his short fiction and the British Fantasy Society Award four times. His novelisation of the movie 30 DAYS OF NIGHT also won him a Scribe Award in 2008. Tim writes full-time and lives in Monmouthshire.
Reviews
Smartly-written and briskly-paced, The Heretic Land is one half prison break, one half war story. The combination makes for an entertaining read, and Lebbon successfully stuffs his dark fantasy island with inventive and incredible ideas * SFX *
Lebbon has created a startlingly authentic world, a parallel universe in which the lineaments of our equally strange reality - its creatures, its mysteries, its brooding religions - stand out in stark relief * DAILY MAIL *
Book Information
ISBN 9781841499383
Author Tim Lebbon
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Orbit
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 382g
Dimensions(mm) 131mm * 201mm * 32mm