Angels and demons alike watch and wait as the last warriors of old
Europe invade the New World in this magnificent conclusion to the Age of
Unreason alternate history series
The alchemical catastrophe that Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed
late in the seventeenth century has transformed Europe into a cold, dead
wasteland in the eighteenth--much to the delight of the otherworldly
malakim, who have set humanity at war with itself for the sin of
dabbling in the arcane.
The last inhabitable territory, the New World, is now the coveted prize
of the surviving European warlords. From the West, Russian forces led by
the Sun Boy, child of the powerful French sorceress Adrienne de Mornay
de Montchevreuil, move relentlessly onward, leaving a trail of
devastation in their wake. British troops in the East are equally
merciless in their conquests.
All that stands against them is a motley alliance of colonists, Native
Americans, scientists, philosophers, displaced Europeans, and others led
by Ben Franklin, now an alchemist of great repute, and Red Shoes, a
Choctaw shaman with questionable motivations. But no matter who wins or
loses, the manipulating angels and demons are always watching, and the
malakim are determined to be the ultimate victors.
In The Shadows of God, the Age of Unreason, Greg Keyes's magnificent
alternate history series, comes to a stunning and most satisfying
conclusion. It is the final chapter in a colorful, exciting, richly
detailed, and ingeniously imagined chronicle of life on a damaged Earth
where magic and science are on equal planes and history's icons inhabit
a past that never was.
