Cloudbound (Bone Universe) - Hardcover

Wilde, Fran

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9780765377852: Cloudbound (Bone Universe)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765377853 ISBN 13: 9780765377852

Publisher: Tor Books, 2016

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After the dust settles, the City of living bones begins to die, and more trouble brews beneath the clouds in the companion to Updraft.

"A thrilling and complex tale about the most difficult stage of a revolution: what do you do after you win? Highly recommended both for the story it tells as well as how it tells that story. Wilde takes risks that pay off hugely.” ―Ken Liu, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Grace of Kings

The Towers in disarray, without a governing body or any defense against the dangers lurking in the clouds, and daily life is full of terror and strife. Nat Densira, the wing-brother to Kirit (Skyshouter, Spirebreaker, no-longer-of-Densira) sets out to be a hero in his own way―sitting on the new Council to cast votes protecting Tower-born, and exploring lower tiers to find more materials to repair the struggling City.

But what he finds down-tier is more secrets―and now Nat will have to decide who to trust, and how to trust himself without losing those he holds most dear, before a dangerous myth raises a surprisingly realistic threat to the crippled City, in Cloudbound.

"I long to know more about the world and where Wilde's imagination will soar next. In the meantime it's all I can do to slow-clap this powerfully engaging debut: Wilde's world and characters―as is entirely appropriate―blew me away." ―NPR on Updraft

Bone Universe
1) Updraft
2) Cloudbound
3) Horizon (September 2017)

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About the Author:

FRAN WILDE is an author and technology consultant. In 2015, her first novel, Updraft, accomplished the rare feat of winning the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy while also being nominated for the Best Novel Nebula Award. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's, Nature, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Wilde also blogs about food and genre at Cooking the Books and for the popular social-parenting website GeekMom. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.

Review:

"Cloudbound is a return to Fran Wilde's hugely inventive world of bone towers and residents who strap on wings and take flight, but hero Nat's dilemmas hinge on threats to his loved ones.... What makes this a must-read are the further explorations of Wilde's City of Towers and the residents who soar the skies between them. Those who have always wondered what was beneath the clouds will finally get their answer." ~ Library Journal

"Action in the skies remains fun, fast, and exactingly rendered, and the ongoing mystery drives a fast and furious plot. Wilde confirms her status as one of the best new writers in SFF with a sequel that delivers on the promise of the original, and then some." ~ James Killen, Tor.com

"A fantastic follow up to UPDRAFT--I liked it better than its predecessor, particularly for what it says about the politics of fear and prejudice, and how giving people what they want isn't always the best thing." ~ Aliette de Bodard, Award-winning author of House of Shattered Wings
"Wilde's worldbuilding remains one of Cloudbound's delights. The revelation at the novel's conclusion - which I will not spoil, because it's worth coming to in its own good time - of what the bone towers actually are is a perfect example. But throughout Nat's sojourn in the clouds, the slow revelation of the world below the clear air of tower society comes with a damp and atmospheric logic, a lowering sense of threat and claustrophobia, that adds immeasurably to the novel's tension.... In terms of pace, style, structure, and sheer flair? Cloudbound represents the opposite of a sophomore slump. It's that rare bird, the follow-up to a highly praised first novel that doesn't just equal its predecessor's accomplishments, but exceeds them. I felt Updraft was a promising debut effort; Cloudbound sees much of that promise realized, with hints of more to come." Excerpt From: Locus Publications. "Locus, September 2016."

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