{"id":17349,"date":"2015-03-18T05:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=17349"},"modified":"2015-03-18T05:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:41:46","slug":"cover-art-for-the-house-of-shattered-wings-by-aliette-de-bodard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-for-the-house-of-shattered-wings-by-aliette-de-bodard\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art for The House of Shattered Wings<\/em> by Aliette de Bodard"},"content":{"rendered":"\"the-house-of-shattered-wings-by-aliette-de-bodard\"\n

Holy moly. I’ll be honest and say that I don’t generally expect great things from Roc Books covers. But this? This is just gorgeous. Eloquent and impactful, great little details all around. The House of Shattered Wings<\/em> is one of my most anticipated novels of the year, and I’m glad to see it has a cover to match my excitement.<\/p>\n

The first details about The House of Shattered Wings<\/em><\/a> were released several weeks ago, but now we have a new blurb with more details about the story:<\/p>\n

\nMulti-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy\u2026<\/p>\n

In the late Twentieth Century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians\u2019 War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France\u2019s once grand capital.<\/p>\n

Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.<\/p>\n

Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen angel; an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction; and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires\u2019 salvation\u2014or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The House of Shattered Wings<\/em>, the first volume in a duology, is due out on September 1st, 2015 from Roc Books (North America) and Gollancz (UK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy moly. I’ll be honest and say that I don’t generally expect great things from Roc Books covers. But this? This is just gorgeous. Eloquent and impactful, great little details all around. The House of Shattered Wings is one of my most anticipated novels of the year, and I’m glad to see it has a… The House of Shattered Wings<\/em> by Aliette de Bodard”>Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":17350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[31,26,39],"tags":[132,1285,1283,38,98,1149,1042,35],"class_list":["post-17349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-cover-art","category-news","tag-aliette-de-bodard","tag-art","tag-cover-art","tag-fantasy","tag-gollancz","tag-roc-books","tag-the-house-of-shattered-wings","tag-urban-fantasy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/the-house-of-shattered-wings-by-aliette-de-bodard.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n