Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series
Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return
with two new novellas from Martha Wells.
Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in
her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas
and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from
the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries
that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both
mundane and magical.
"The Dead City" is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. As
Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by
the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly
caravanserai finds itself under attack by a strange force. In "The Dark
Earth Below," Moon and Jade face their biggest adventure yet; their
first clutch. But even as Moon tries to prepare for impending
fatherhood, members of the Kek village in the colony tree's roots go
missing, and searching for them only leads to more mysteries as the
court is stalked by an unknown enemy.
Stories of Moon and the shape changers of Raksura have delighted readers
for years. This world is a dangerous place full of strange mysteries,
where the future can never be taken for granted and must always be
fought for with wits and ingenuity, and often tooth and claw. With these
two new novellas, Martha Wells shows that the world of the Raksura has
many more stories to tell...
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