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#6863 of 8,085 books · #1483 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2007).

Virga is a vast, gravity-free balloon world filled with air and warmed by a handful of artificial suns, the largest and most central of which is Candesce, the Sun of Suns. Its inhabitants build floating towns near the artificial stars, while the cold, dark spaces between are left to pirates and the desperate. Hayden Griffin is set on avenging his parents, killed years before when his home city of Aerie was destroyed by the nation of Slipstream. Through one twist of fate after another, he finds himself serving the very enemies responsible - and discovers there are far worse dangers loose in Virga than he ever realized, entangling him with Admiral Chaison Fanning and his wife Venera.

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Publisher
Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781429983686
Topics
RevengeSurvival in a hostile worldPolitical intrigue and war

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