Elizabeth Hand Books In Order
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Winterlong | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Æstival Tide | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Icarus Descending | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Illyria Books
Publication Order of Cass Neary Books
Generation Loss | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Available Dark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hard Light | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Lamps and Banners | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Waking the Moon | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twelve Monkeys | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Glimmering | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Light | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anna and the King | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Affair of the Necklace | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catwoman | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortal Love | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride of Frankenstein | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wylding Hall | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Curious Toys | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hokuloa Road | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Erl-King | (1993) | |
Cleopatra Brimstone | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Least Trumps | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon (in Stories) | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Near Zennor | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Sale by Owner | (2021) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Last Summer at Mars Hill | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bibliomancy | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saffron and Brimstone | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Errantry | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire. | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Elizabeth Hand | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books
Best New Horror | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 17 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 27 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 28 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 29 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror, Volume One | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #30 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #31 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White of the Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where The Bodies Are Buried | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus One | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fair Folk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
The Human Front | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Left Left Behind | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lucky Strike | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Underbelly | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wild Girls | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Herself | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raising Hell | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gypsy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire. | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totalitopia | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A City Made of Words | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
The Left Left Behind | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lucky Strike | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Underbelly | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wild Girls | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Human Front | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Herself | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raising Hell | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gypsy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire. | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totalitopia | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A City Made of Words | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Skolian Empire Books
Primary Inversion | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch the Lightning | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Hawk | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Radiant Seas | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ascendant Sun | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quantum Rose | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spherical Harmonic | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sextopia | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon's Shadow | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skyfall | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Schism | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Key | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ruby Dice | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Diamond Star | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carnelians | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Skolian Empire Books
Skyfall | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Schism | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Key | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Hawk | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Primary Inversion | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Radiant Seas | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ascendant Sun | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quantum Rose | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spherical Harmonic | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon's Shadow | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Diamond Star | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ruby Dice | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carnelians | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch the Lightning | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sextopia | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Dying Earth Books
The Dying Earth / Mazirian the Magician | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cugel's Saga / Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eyes of the Overworld / Cugel the Clever | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Quest for Simbilis | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Morreion | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventeen Virgins | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bagful of Dreams | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rhialto the Marvellous | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Laughing Magician | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of The Mammoth Book of... Books
The Mammoth Book of Terror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Dracula | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, Volume I | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of New Terror | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents Messing With Your Head | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unexpected Encounters | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents A Ghostly Gathering | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Clutch of Zombies | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lethal Legends | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents Demonic Dreams | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents More Than Human | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! End Game | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of The X-Files Books
Goblins | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
X-Files Number 4 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whirlwind | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ground Zero | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruins | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hunter | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antibodies | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skin | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fight the Future | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Want to Believe | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
X-Files: Trust No One | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
X-Files: The Truth Is Out There | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Omni Best Science Fiction Two | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Terror | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Many Faces of Van Helsing | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nine Muses | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best American Fantasy | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Book of Horrors | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bewere the Night | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin and Seduction | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When Things Get Dark | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elizabeth Hand is a bestselling of cross-genre novels and collections of essays and short stories. She has been known for writing some of the most intriguing science fiction, fantasy and horror novels that have earned her wide readership and critical acclaim. Hand has received multiple awards for her works that include a Nebula, Award, a World Fantasy Award and a Shirley Jackson Award among several other awards. Her novels have been compared to the works of greats such as Patricia Highsmith. Her “Cass Neary” series of novels are currently being adapted into a TV series. As a critically acclaimed novelist, she has been writing essays, critiques, and reviews for the likes of “Los Angeles Times” and the “Washington Post” among many others. She is also a regular columnist for the magazine Science Fiction and Magazine of Fantasy. Since the publication of Winterlong her dystopian novel in 1990, she has gone on to publish several series of novels including the “Illyria” and “Cass Neary” series of novels alongside several single standing novels and short stories. She is known for her inventive plotlines and diverse array of characters that are drawn in strong prose that drives strong themes. Hand loves to focus on non-mainstream artists and the effects of climate change on the world.
Hand was born in San Diego California, but spent much of her early childhood in the suburbs of Pound Ridge and Yonkers in New York City. She lived with her grandparents in Yonkers in an old house full of twentieth-century ephemera that inspired one of the scenes in one of her novels. As a teen, she lived in Pound Ridge, a small enclave known for being the capital for artists and theater professionals from Manhattan. Hand has an American Irish background and credits her paternal grandfather as a huge influence on her becoming a novelist. He would regale her with his huge repertoire of Garlic fairy tales and ghost stories that got her hooked on the art of storytelling. As a child, she had severe asthma which made her retreat even more into books. She read the likes of “Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis and “Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien and by the time she was a teenager she was penning her own short fiction. She penned a few plays after becoming a member of a local theater group but had to leave and go to college to study playwriting and drama. She graduated from the Catholic University of America in Washington after nine years, a stint that just confirmed that she had no talent. She would go on to get a degree in Cultural Anthropology in 1984 while juggling studies with her job at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institute. Hand’s first published work was “Prince of Flowers” that was published in “Twilight Zone Magazine”. It was a huge break since the magazine published the best fantasy and horror fiction from established authors. Elizabeth Hand is currently a professor of Creative Writing at the MFA program in Stonecoast and spends her time between North London and the Maine coast.
Winterlong is Elizabeth Hand’s debut novel that she first published in 1990. The novel is set on Earth several centuries or millennia from the present and combines elements of fantasy and science fiction that was made popular by the likes of Richard Grant, Jack Vance, and Gene Wolfe. It is a planetary romance with ornate psychopathologies, mythical resonances and genetic engineering implicitly and intensely glimpsed. The novel seems to be influenced by the “Origin of Consciousness” by Julian Jayne. Hand writes powerful prose that captures the essence of romance and combines it with the best of fantasy for an unforgettable story. “Æstival Tide” published in 1992 is a novel set in a decadent Washington DC and has better pacing than Winterlong. The city-states of the future are struggling for dominance over what is left after a nuclear war destroyed the American civilization. Life is hanging on precariously as the Aestival Tide is celebrated in portentous tones given that a dreaded evil legend is looming on the horizon. In her third novel “Icarus Descending,” Elizabeth writes a baroque novel set in a world that is about to be hit by an asteroid that may cause a cataclysmic collapse. She tells the story of an unlikely alliance between genetically modified and cannibalistic clones from space and refugees running away from a devastating war.
Hand’s “Winterlong” launched the career of one of the best science fiction and fantasy authors and made her one of its most popular authors. The novel is set several hundred years in a future Earth ravaged by a series of catastrophes and wars. Some survivors have been living in what may best be described as medieval societies, since much of the technological advancement and knowledge has been destroyed. On the space stations are the Ascendants who are a small minority of elites that had managed to save some advanced knowledge. In the capital Washington DC government offices are overgrown with weeds and vines though a small group of volunteers that call themselves Curators are determined to preserve culture and human learning. There are also other groups that include man-eaters also known as Lazars, prostitutes, and genetically altered people referred to as geneslaves. Wendy the heroine of the story gets to encounter all of these creatures on a hellish journey from Virginia to Washington as she is looking for her brother that has gone missing.
Æstival Tide is a futuristic novel that is just as lush, baroque and decadent as the debut. Margolis Tast’annin is a sympathetic and zombified aviator who was introduced in the first novel but has now come back as a very different character. There are also other strands that include a murderous and wise land whale and the story of twisted royalty that has dominion over an enclosed Babylon. It is a dystopian story in which an inbred minority exert their ruthless will over the majority of subjects. The subjects live in a city highly stratified on social and physical lines. The natural world is deemed an enemy to the realm and is forever shut out of the walls of the city. Inside the city, gene-modified creatures are forced to do the twisted bidding of their rulers and even death is not a refuge for anyone that hopes to escape from the crushing servitude. The novel does not have the classic protagonist though it comes with memorable and quirky characters that pull its readers into a crisis filled bizarre world.
Icarus Descending is a novel about a planet that is facing the danger of an asteroid crash. Elizabeth Hand’s story is a combination of several science fiction elements into a colorful and original story. Several centuries in the future, several groups are fighting over rapidly declining stocks of resources on Earth. Some humans have access to the geneslaves made from genetic modification but even this is changing rapidly as the slaves are revolting, led by Metatron an ancient military android. Margalis Tast’annin the Aviator that died at the end of the first novel comes back as a cyborg and is determined to stop Metatron. Several characters from Winterlong also make an appearance supporting the rebels. In the confusion, the asteroid that threatens the Earth was ignored and unnoticed has encroached even further. Metatron wants the cataclysm to happen as he sees it as the best way to end the rule of the masters.
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