All the Windwracked Stars
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
3.4
Elizabeth Bear
“Readers will be captivated by . . . complex, broken characters; multilayered themes of redemption ; and . . . [a] finale . . . both rewarding and compelling.” —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIt all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, wounded, and one valraven – the steeds of the valkyrie.Because they lived, Valdyrgard was not wholly destroyed. Because the valraven was transformed in the last miracle offered to a Child of the Light, Valdyrgard was changed to a world where magic and technology worked hand in hand.2500 years later, Muire is in the last city on the dying planet, where the Technomancer rules what's left of humanity. She's caught sight of someone she has not seen since the Last Battle: Mingan the Wolf is hunting in her city.“Bear’s world building echoes the best of Zelazny and pulls the reader into the story and the history.” —Booklist, starred review
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Author
Elizabeth Bear
Pages
380
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
2008-10-28
ISBN
1429949376 9781429949378
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"This book is complex... I'll try and take it slow...<br/>The last Valkyrie after Ragnarok lives on for a few thousand years until humans (without their Gods. Ragnarok, remember?) nuke everything save for one city. She remains in her role as chooser (and avenger) of the slain. Then choosing one more victim in an alley one night, she discovers that she may not be the last of the Valkyrie after all...<br/><br/>Elizabeth Bear somehow manages to cobble together alternate history and mythology in new and surprising ways. A Valkyrie who uses computers and pistols (as well as her trusty sword) to avenge the dead. The burdens our histories put upon us. The sheer weight of time and the number of lives you'd have to lead if you were immortal... many of these things would make whole novels themselves. The fused concept SHOULDN'T work, but Bear makes it soar. I think I'm in love..."