{"product_id":"the-gossamer-mage-paperback","title":"The Gossamer Mage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie E. Czerneda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Aurora Award for Best Novel, this fantasy epic tells the tale of one mage who must stand against a Deathless Goddess who controls all magic. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the Deathless Goddess. Only in this small, forbidden realm are there those haunted by words of no language known to woman or man. The words are Her Gift, and they summon magic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMage scribes learn to write Her words as intentions: spells to make beasts or plants, designed to any purpose. If an intention is flawed, what the mage creates is a gossamer: a magical creature as wild and free as it is costly for the mage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Her Gift comes at a steep price. Each successful intention ages a mage until they dare no more. But her magic demands to be used; the Deathless Goddess will take her fee, and mages will die. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo end this terrible toll, the greatest mage in Tananen vows to find and destroy Her. He has yet to learn She is all that protects Tananen from what waits outside. And all that keeps magic alive.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie E. Czerneda \u003c\/b\u003eis a biologist and best-selling writer whose science fiction has received international acclaim. She is the author of the popular Species Imperative trilogy, the Web Shifters series, and the Clan Chronicles novels. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her stand-alone novel, \u003ci\u003eIn the Company of Others\u003c\/i\u003e, won Canada's Prix Aurora Award and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished SF. Her Night's Edge series, \u003ci\u003eA Turn of Light \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Play of Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Aurora Award for Best English Novel in two consecutive years. Julie has edited\/co-edited sixteen SFF anthologies, including the Aurora-winning \u003ci\u003eSpace Inc. \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnder Cover of Darkness. \u003c\/i\u003eJulie lives with her husband and two children in the lake country of central Ontario, under skies so clear they could take seeing the Milky Way for granted, but never do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700311789631,"sku":"9780756412340","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e373016cc33e5cf1028636ade7286203.webp?v=1765016229","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-gossamer-mage-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}