The Waking Engine

Edison, David

ISBN 10: 0765370115 / ISBN 13: 9780765370112

Published by Tor Fantasy, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Waking Engine
• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765370115
• ISBN 13: 9780765370112
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.

Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times . . . until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the gateway to True Death can be found.

Wayfarers and pilgrims are drawn to the City, which is home to murderous aristocrats, disguised gods and goddesses, a sadistic faerie princess, immortal prostitutes and queens, a captive angel, gangs of feral Death Boys and Charnel Girls . . . and one very confused New Yorker.

Late of Manhattan, Cooper finds himself in a City that is not what it once was. The gateway to True Death is failing, so that the City is becoming overrun by the Dying, who clot its byzantine streets and alleys . . . and a spreading madness threatens to engulf the entire metaverse.

Richly imaginative, David Edison's The Waking Engine is a stunning debut by a major new talent.

About the Author

DAVID EDISON divides his time between New York City and San Francisco. The Waking Engine is his first novel.