Skip to content

Salute the Dark

Salute the Dark

Epic FantasyFantasy
Pages
459
Published
2010
Language
English

Synopsis

The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual - a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality. But Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the Empire.

The massed Wasp armies are on the march, and the spymaster Stenwold must see which of his allies will stand now that the war has finally arrived. This time the Empire will not stop until a black and gold flag waves over Stenwold's own home city of Collegium.

Tisamon the Weaponsmaster is faced with a terrible choice: a path that could lead him to abandon his friends and his daughter and to face degradation and loss. Yet it might bring him before the Wasp Emperor with a blade in his hand. But is he being driven by Mantis-kinden honour, or manipulated by something more sinister?

Genres

Epic Fantasy Fantasy High Fantasy Science Fiction Steampunk

About the author

A
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky (born Adrian Czajkowski) is a British science fiction and fantasy author, born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading before working as a legal executive, becoming a full-time writer in 2018. His debut novel, Empire in Black and Gold (2008), opened the ten-book Shadows of the Apt series. His novel Children of Time won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and began an ongoing series; his other work...