Sunder, Eclipse and Seed - Softcover

Guttenberg, Elyse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999204920 ISBN 13: 9780999204924

Publisher: Murphy Dome Press, 2017

Synopsis

Born of the gods, she is the Waking Dreamer. World Walker.When Calyx's father banishes her to the dream temple at Aster, it’s an answer to her prayers for now she will be trained to watch and speak the dreams of others.It’s a world she longs to join. As the youngest daughter of the lord of Briana, she is nothing like her vain sister or older brother who is too busy learning to be a soldier to notice their plain and frankly wild sister. Calyx alone is a jarak dreamer and until now it’s a secret she preferred to keep. Like the priests in the temples, she has dreams, true jarak dreams, and they are a gift of the gods.But learning the ways of the Sumedaro priests is more difficult than she imagined and the world is changing. Time is short.People everywhere are having the same shared dream and the north is growing cold. While priests scheme and a jealous queen stands in her way Edishu, the gods own nightmare, longs to escape his prison and conquer Calyx through her dreams.Now one woman stands alone to protect her people from the living death of a dread rule.

About this title

About the Author:

Elyse Guttenberg is an award winning Alaskan Author. She writes by day and at night wields her chain saw on 20 acres of discontinuous permafrost in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is the recipient of an Alaska State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship in Literature and an Artists Initiative Award. Her first novel Sunder, Eclipse and Seed was shortlisted for the Crawford award for best first novel by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Summer Light and Daughter of the Shaman are Alaskan prehistories. Other work appears in The Women’s Press Book of New Myth and Magic; Spaceships and Spells; Faces of Fantasy, About Place Journal and other publications. With Jean Anderson, she is the editor of Inroads, an Anthology of Writing by Alaska’s Fellowship Writers. When she is not writing, she’s usually outside chopping firewood in the winter and building stone walls in the summer. Guttenberg grew up in New York City, followed her brothers north and lived the cabin life (NOT the television reality version). As a student she studied by kerosene light, heated with wood and hauled water. She and her husband cleared their homesite with chainsaws and brought in electricity and after that a telephone and later, running water. Learn more about her books and follow her blog Writing Alaska at www.elyseguttenberg.com

Review:

"SUNDER, ECLIPSE AND SEED tells the story of Calyx, the youngest daughter of a noblefamily, banished to a temple where she hopes to learn the secrets of her powerto watch and speak the dreams of others...There's a unique feel of the setting and... the magicand mythology are likewise intriguing. Should satisfy the itch for any fan."
Addley Fannin
Fairbanks Daily News Miner

About this edition

• Publisher: Murphy Dome Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0999204920
• ISBN 13: 9780999204924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352