by Mary Gentle (Author)
The distant world of Orthe is littered with spectacular remnants of the Golden Empire, an ancient and technologically advanced civilisation extinct for two thousand years. Now their Orthean descendants have turned away from the technology which nearly destroyed them, and from their ancestors, the Golden Witchbreed. Then Earth envoy Lynne de Lisle Christie arrives and, all too quickly, finds herself the victim of intrigue and conspiracy, embroiled in a conflict that threatens to explode into war - and which puts her own life in deadly peril ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 992
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 11 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0575072873
ISBN 13: 9780575072879
Book Overview: The classic fantasy duology from the author of the bestselling ASH ASH was shortlisted for the WHS Thumping Good Read Award 'A spectacular and wonderfully evocative novel ... she is a writer who knows politics and human nature' Julian May 'A rare narrative talent' C.J. Cherryh 'So gloriously alien. Wow!' Anne McCaffrey
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