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EAN: 9780552551267
Format: Paperback
Published: 6 Jul 2006
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Synopsis
In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy - training that involves heading out over the Edge on tethers to develop his flying skills. But when Quint breaks the rules and head out to Open Sky on his own, he runs into the great sky leviathan known as a cloud-eater and must use all his skill and ingenuity if catastrophe is not to strike the Edgeworld...
What the critics say
Stunningly original
- Guardian
Fabulously illustrated
- Sunday Times
Packed with action and adventure. There is a touch of the Lewis Carrolls to its authors' enthusiastic and uninhibited inventiveness and to the illustrations
- Starburst
This series is so exceptional… I’d bet good money on it still being in print a century from now
- Interzone
Lists tour in September in Publicity Diary.
- Books in The Media
Editor's Comments
I love working with Paul and Chris on their books. All of the Edge Chronicles are utterly compelling and brilliant fun - with moments of real humour and danger and more. The way they work is fascinating - it's so completely collaborative. Chris's artwork is incredible and you can tell they have a lot of fun coming up with the people, goblins and other creatures who make up the Edgeworld inhabitants.
For anyone who's making a start on the series, you really can read them in any order, but to get the best from them I'd suggest reading them in their three trilogies. The Quint trilogy is first, chronolgically, and consists of The Curse of the Gloamglozer, The Winter Knights and Clash of the Sky Galleons. The Twig trilogy comes next: Beyond the Deepwoods, Stormchaser and Midnight over Sanctaphrax. And then the Rook trilogy: The Last of the Sky Pirates, Vox and Freeglader. All three trilogies and the heroes in them will be tied together in one last story soon... watch this space!