Crystal Rain

Tobias S. Buckell

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Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm’s hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off planet called Earth. Mighty were the old-fathers, with the power to shape the world to their liking---but that was many generations ago, and what was once known has long been lost. Steamboats and gas-filled blimps now traverse the planet, where people once looked up to see great silver cities in the sky.
 
Like his world, John deBrun has forgotten more than he remembers. Twenty-seven years ago, he washed up onto the shore of Nanagada with no memory of his past. Although he has made a new life for himself among the peaceful islanders, his soul remains haunted by unanswered questions about his own identity.
 
These mysteries take on new urgency when the fearsome Azteca storm over the Wicked High Mountains in search of fresh blood and hearts to feed their cruel, inhuman gods. Nanagada’s only hope lies in a mythical artifact, the Ma Wi Jung, said to be hidden somewhere in the frozen north. And only John deBrun knows the device’s secrets, even if he can’t remember why or how!
 
Crystal Rain is the much-anticipated debut novel by one of science fiction’s newest and most promising talents.

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Crystal Rain
PART ONETHE WICKED HIGHSCHAPTER ONE 
 
The Wicked High Mountains loomed around Dennis and his men as they skirted house-sized, reddish slabs of rock jutting from the soil, avoided deep, echoing chasms, and paused at a tiny stream to fill their canteens.Above the tree line the air cooled enough that Dennis could see his own breath. Yesterday he would have been amused. Today his huffing betrayed how fast he moved over the crumbling ground.Dennis looked around at his men. Mongoose-men. Nanagada's best bush warriors. They hopped from rock to rock with grunts.

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“There’s a nova in the skies: Tobias S. Buckell is a dazzling new voice, and Crystal Rain is an explosive debut. Read it!”--Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids
 
Crystal Rain is refreshing and imaginative, an exotic stew of cultures, myths, and technology.”--Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author
 
Crystal Rain conjures a vividly imagined world, spiced with intrigue and adventure that unfolds at a breakneck pace.”--Booklist
 
“Caribbean-born Buckell’s debut captures the flavor of Afro-Caribbean culture in the lilting dialog of his characters and in their customs.”—Library Journal (starred review) on Crystal Rain

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Tobias S. Buckell

Tobias S. Buckell is the author of Halo: The Cole ProtocolSly Mongoose and Ragamuffin. His books have been finalists for the Nebula Award, the Prometheus Award, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. He hails from the Caribbean, where as a child he lived on boats in Grenada and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Ohio after a series of hurricanes destroyed the boat they were living on, and he attended Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio, where he still lives today. Buckell fell in love with science fiction at a young age, reading Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov novels when he was seven years old. He is now a full-time author and freelancer.

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Crystal Rain
Tobias S. Buckell

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Science Fiction
May 2007
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780765350909
ISBN10: 0765350904
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 384 pages
$7.99

Unabridged Digital Audio

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Macmillan Audio
November 2008
Unabridged Digital Audio
ISBN: 9781427206404
ISBN10: 1427206406
Audio Run Time: 12:00
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Hardcover
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
February 2006
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780765312273
ISBN10: 0765312271
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 352 pages
$24.95

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
May 2007
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429910750
ISBN10: 1429910755
352 pages
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