The Golden Princess

Zusatztext “Occasionally a book comes along that makes you stop and put down anything else you are working on so you can read it. For me that was The Golden Princess …Fans of Stirling and the Emberverse series will be satisfied by this new chapter. Stirling’s skill as a world builder is still as sharp as ever.”— Amazing Stories “Extremely entertaining reading. Stirling writes clear dialogue! frank sensuous scenes! very effective humorous moments! and utterly hypnotic prolonged action-sequences. Fans of the series will find a great deal to enjoy here.”— Open Letters Monthly “Stirling’s books have a structural similarity to many of Harry Turtledove’s best sagas! and even! I’d say! the writing of James Michener…This is a unique series! an unusually complex world! and one well worth exploring.”— Bookworm Blues Informationen zum Autor S. M. Stirling Klappentext The New York Times bestselling author of The Given Sacrifice begins a new saga—with a new generation of heroes—set in the universe of the Change.... Princess Órlaith, heir to Rudi Mackenzie, High King of Montival, now wields the Sword of the Lady—and faces a new enemy. Fortunately, she also has a new ally in Reiko, Empress of Japan, who has been pursued to America by a conquering army from Asia. To combat their mutual foe, Órlaith and Reiko embark on a quest to find the fabled Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword, one of the three great treasures of the Japanese Imperial House. But the road to Kusanagi lies beyond the meganecropolis of the City of Angels—and their relentless enemy will stop at nothing to prevent them from succeeding. For across the Pacific, the great arc of land that stretches from the dark kingdom of Korea to the realm of Capricornia in Australia is threatened by war. Now all the survivors of the Change must choose sides.... ALSO BY S. M. STIRLING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER ONE Near the nemed of Dun Barstow County of Napa, Crown Province of Westria (Formerly Napa County, California) High Kingdom of Montival (Formerly western North America) April 30th, Change Year 46/2044 AD Órlaith Arminger Mackenzie bore the first unlit torch forward to her father’s pyre as the sun touched the low mountains to the west. All I want is to crawl alone into somewhere dark and greep like a little lass, she thought. Or run to my mother that we may weep together. But I’ve more than twenty summers now, Mother is far away in the north building Dún na Síochána , I’m his heir. I must do this for him. His big long-fingered hands were crossed on the hilt of the Sword of the Lady as he lay on the bier, shapely though scarred and battered. He was dressed plainly in the simple kilt and shirt and plaid, ankle-boots and knee-hose of the people who’d borne him. There was an inhuman peace now to the face that had been so lively with the play of thought and feeling, and the golden torque around his neck hid the wound that had killed him. Rudi Mackenzie—High King Artos—had been a tall man, still broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped in his forty-seventh year; his red-gold hair held no trace of gray, or his short-cropped beard, though there were deep lines beside his eyes. It was as if he were withdrawing before her eyes, from the living man who had sired her to the sculptured image of the King who’d forged a realm that stretched over half a continent. From the light of common day into the time of legends. At least she was among Mackenzie clansfolk, mostly, so they wouldn’t expect her not to weep. Following the steps of ritual helped, she found. The tears trickled down her face, but her voice was steady as she laid the torch at her feet and raised her arms in her faith’s gesture of prayer: “He was High King and father to all the land, but to me he was...

Product details

• Authors: S. M. Stirling
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780451417343
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41734-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 19 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Change Series; Change; Change Series; A Novel of the Change; Novel of the Change
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy