The surface of their world is a place of horrors, full of dangerous beasts which occasionally make their way into the spires. The technology and culture seems to be similar to that of Europe in the 18th century. These same crystals can be used to generate electricity and to power energy-based weapons. Technology based around vat-grown crystals allows them to create airships, which can sail the skies while functioning in most respects like a Golden Age of Sail vessel. Spire Albion is the central setting, and is governed by constitutional monarchy. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more.The novel takes place on a world in which humans live in "spires", huge cylindrical arcologies 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) tall and two miles across. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion-to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.Īnd even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.Ĭaptain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors… An ancient evil has reawakened, and the entire world is plunged into a sinister mist, filled with terrible creatures. It’s jam-packed with airships, crazy sorcerers, privateers, warrior monks, and intelligent cats. The Aeronaut’s Windlass is the first book in Jim’s upcoming Steampunk series, The Cinder Spires.
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