About the Book
The first novel of an epic fantasy series by one of the field's 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.
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.
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"
"A thoroughly engrossing debut novel from a major new fantasist. A poignant human tale of power, heartbreak, and betrayal."
--George R.R. Martin
"An architecturally-perfect fantasy world filled with a fascinating, highly distinctive set of characters."
--Walter Jon Williams
"Carries us into an exotic, fantastic, yet utterly convincing world. Bravo! I look forward to the next book."
--Morgan Llywelyn
"In a world of bloated fantasy clones, Abraham's voice is fresh and startlingly new."
--S. M. Stirling
"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
"One of the most elegant and engaging fantasies I've read in years, based on an intriguing, original premise."
--Jacqueline Carey
""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
