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Zusatztext Praise for Vision in Silver “The Queen of Fantasy...Teeming with intrigue! suspense! heartbreak! and hints of romance! Bishop’s literary skills continue to astound and enchant.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers “Bishop’s world building is second to none.”—Fresh Fiction “Storytelling that is flawless...A fascinating! fun! tense! and exciting story! in a complex world.”—The Reading Café More Praise for Anne Bishop and the Novels of the Others “Anne Bishop is so good at writing character development....I love this series and I NEED MORE!”—USAToday.com “Without a doubt one of the best UF series on the market.”— RT Book Reviews “A stunningly original yarn! deeply imagined! beautifully articulated! and set forth in clean! limpid! sensual prose.”— Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop is a winner of the William L. Crawford Memorial Fantasy Award! presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts! for The Black Jewels Trilogy. She is also the author of the Ephemera series! the Tir Alainn trilogy! and the Novels of the Others—including Etched in Bone ! Marked in Flesh ! Vision in Silver ! Murder of Crows ! and Written in Red . She lives in upstate New York. BOOKS BY ANNE BISHOP ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Geography Namid—The World Continents/Landmasses Afrikah Australis Brittania/Wild Brittania Cel-Romano/Cel-Romano Alliance of Nations Felidae Fingerbone Islands Storm Islands Thaisia Tokhar-Chin Zelande Great Lakes— Superior, Tala, Honon, Etu, and Tahki Other lakes— Feather Lakes/Finger Lakes River— Talulah/Talulah Falls Mountains— Addirondak, Rocky Cities and villages— Ferryman’s Landing, Hubb NE (aka Hubbney), Jerzy, Lakeside, Podunk, Shikago, Sparkletown, Sweetwater, Talulah Falls, Toland, Walnut Grove, Wheatfield Days of the Week Earthday Moonsday Sunsday Windsday Thaisday Firesday Watersday Long ago, Namid gave birth to all kinds of life, including the beings known as humans. She gave the humans fertile pieces of herself, and she gave them good water. Understanding their nature and the nature of her other offspring, she also gave them enough isolation that they would have a chance to survive and grow. And they did. They learned to build fires and shelters. They learned to farm and build cities. They built boats and fished in the Mediterran and Black seas. They bred and spread throughout their pieces of the world until they pushed into the wild places. That’s when they discovered that Namid’s other offspring already claimed the rest of the world. The Others looked at humans and did not see conquerors. They saw a new kind of meat. Wars were fought to possess the wild places. Sometimes the humans won and spread their seed a little farther. More often, pieces of civilization disappeared, and fearful survivors tried not to shiver when a howl went up in the night or a man, wandering too far from the safety of stout doors and light, was found the next morning drained of blood. Centuries passed, and the humans built larger ships and sailed across the Atlantik Ocean. When they found virgin land, they built a settlement near the shore. Then they discovered that this land was also claimed by the terra indigene , the earth natives. The Others. The terra indigene who ruled the continent called Thaisia became angry when the humans cut down trees and put a plow to land that was not theirs. So the Others ate the settlers and learned the shape of this particular meat, just as they had done many times in the past. Th...
