{"product_id":"the-stone-in-the-skull-by-elizabeth-bear-9780765380142","title":"The Stone in the Skull","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest SFF Books 2017 - The Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Verge Recommended Fantasy for 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLocus 2017 Recommended Reading List\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis first volume of a new Eternal Sky trilogy takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south, into the Lotus Kingdoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gage, a brass automaton created by a long-dead wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being, works as a mercenary. He carries a message from the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is the Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the bodyguard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of the shattered bits of a once great Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244712079596,"sku":"9780765380142","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780765380142-the-stone-in-the-skull-1.jpg?v=1788010635","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-stone-in-the-skull-by-elizabeth-bear-9780765380142","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}