Title: City of Bones
Title Record # 4701
Author: Martha Wells
Date: 1995-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Martha Wells
Date: 1995-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Note: The 2023 Tor.com edition is marked as "Updated and Revised". It is unclear how big the changes are.
Synopsis: From the dust jacket laps of the Tor first edition: "....With City of Bones, Wells shapes a fabled and mysterious Arabian Nights wonderland in which science and magic meet in a head-on clash. it is a place that has been devastated by an ancient holocaust, and where not of the world's water has evaporated.
But out of the ashes, a bizarre and wonderful civilization arises. Sand ship now traverse the routes once used by the great war galleons, and a glittering chain of city-states dot the Great Waste. And the greatest of them all is Charisat. Charisat, Imperial seat and wonder of wonders, a great monolithic structure towering over the desert. Charisat, a phantasmagorical place where silken courtesans and beggars weave lies side by side, where any man's dreams can be fulfilled at the whisper of a genie, and where the tier that you live on determines how high up the food (or more importantly, water) chain you are.
Charisat, the goal of every schemer, treasure hunter, and madman intent on finding his hearts content. For if it can't be had in Charisat, it's not worth having.
A beautiful woman and a handsome thief try to unravel the mysteries of an age-old technology to stop a fanatical cult before its members unleash an evil that will topple Charisat.
And destroy all the water in the world."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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10 | 1996 Locus | Best Fantasy Novel |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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City of Bones | 1995-06-00 | Martha Wells | Tor | 0-312-85686-5 | $22.95?$: US dollar |
383 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Richard Bober | |
City of Bones | 1996-01-00 | Martha Wells | Tor / SFBC | 10657 | $8.98?$: US dollar |
383 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Richard Bober | |
City of Bones | 1996-06-00 | Martha Wells | Tor Fantasy | 0-812-56708-0 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
442 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Richard Bober | |
City of Bones | 2023-09-05 | Martha Wells | Tor.com | 978-1-250-86167-2 | $18.99?$: US dollar |
416 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Carolyn Cushman (1995) in Locus, #412 May 1995
- Review by John C. Bunnell (1996) in Dragon Magazine, January 1996
- Review by Brian C. Wilson (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1996