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Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy.

* Best SFF Books 2017-- The Guardian
** Kirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017
** The Verge Recommended Fantasy for 2017
* ** Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List **

The Stone in the Skull , the first volume in her new trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south into the Lotus Kingdoms.

The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort.

They are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of the shattered bits of a once great Empire.

The Lotus Kingdoms

1 The Stone in the Skull

The Eternal Sky Trilogy

1 Range of Ghosts

2 Shattered Pillars

3 Steles of the Sky