Geomancer

Over a million copies of Ian Irvine’s fantasy novels sold.


Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx – intelligent, winged predators from the void who will do anything to gain their own world. And despite the development of battle clankers, and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. The enemy is destroying their nodes of power, one by one.


Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with a new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her gift for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts, and the most perilous. Geomancy is likely to kill her before she masters it. Yet it is a talent that both allies and enemies are desperate to control.


Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. She is also hunted by the lyrinx, Ryll, who plans to use her in his dreadful flesh-forming experiments. Only geomancy can save her. 


Struggling to control her talent, Tiaan follows her visions to Tirthrax, the tallest mountain in all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her …


What reviewers say about the Three Worlds books


“A compelling adventure in a landscape full of wonders.” – Locus


“A page-turner of the highest order … Formidable!” – SFX on Geomancer


“It is the most engrossing book I’ve read in years.” – Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald


“Readers of Eddings, Goodkind and Jordan will lap this one up.” – Starlog


“Utterly absorbing.” Stephen Davenport, Independent Weekly



“For sheer excitement, there’s just no one like Irvine.” SFX on The Destiny of the Dead


“As good as anything I have read in the fantasy genre.” – Adelaide Advertiser


Some Reviews of Geomancer


'Ian Irvine is arguably the most inventive fantasy author to emerge in recent years. A page-turner of the highest order ... Irvine can now consider himself comfortably ranked next to the works of Robert Jordan and David Eddings and, more appropriately, the mighty Anne McCaffrey. Formidable!' SFX


'This is, attractively, grimmer and grittier than most fantasy novels with a real sense of industrial squalor and a society in paranoid melt-down – and with a neatly unpleasant set of twists at the end.' Roz Kaveney, Amazon.uk


'Ian Irvine has produced one of those rarities in the fantasy genre, and that is a unique, well-thought-out world coupled with a well-written storyline. A gripping read.' Enigma


'Irvine imagines the epic landscape through which the characters move in persuasive detail and describes it powerfully. The misery of the manufactory's oppressed children and fearful adults is effectively communicated and elaborated. Driven by fear and inadequacy ... they cheat, lie and betray others in the cause of their own ambition, but are nonetheless sympathetically portrayed.' Australian Book Review.