'Across the stark heavens the mysterious object came blazing, swerving and spinning in all directions, growing larger with every passing moment. Intense flashes of light flared and spangled around its surface, scribing a bright, wavering path through the darkness. Though it tumbled erratically, the object was plunging directly towards Malmes-Wutton. There was no time to panic, no time to raise an alarm.'
Robin Jarvis's latest creation is a world set in an alternate past - in a genre that can only be described as Scyence Fyctione! This strangely familiar Britain consists of ninety-three individual "blessed isles" floating in the deep darkness and the story begins in December in the Gloriana Kalendar, when Elizabeth Tudor has reigned on the throne of Englandia for one hundred and seventy-eight years.
Into this world - a place with no animals and little technology - comes a stranger, Brindle. No one knows where he's from, or how he's arrived. But he brings strange implements and sinister practices, and he's about to change things forever . . .
'Deathscent' is the first title in a starling new fantasy series.
