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Informationen zum Autor Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction. Klappentext 9th novel in this series! now published in trade paperback. The ninth in the Shadows of the Apt series Zusammenfassung SHADOWS OF THE APT: BOOK NINE Relentlessly advancing towards Collegium! the Empire is again seeking to break down its walls. The mighty imperial armies have learnt from their failures! and Empress Seda will brook no weakness in her soldiers. However! Stenwold Maker has earned his title! and the War Master has strategies to save his city. His aviators rule the skies - but the Wasp Kinden Empire has developed a terrifying new aerial weapon. Yet the campaign may be decided far from marching armies and the noise of battle. In an ancient forest! where Mantis clans pursue their own civil war! the Empress Seda is seeking lost magic. Some dangerous shadow of old night is locked up among these trees and she is wants its power. Cheerwell Maker must stop her! at any cost! but will their rivalry awaken something far deadlier? Something that could make even their clash of nations pale into insignificance . . .
