Sandymancer
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Publisher Description
A wild girl with sand magic in her bones and a mad god who is trying to fix the world he broke come together in SANDYMANCER, a genre-warping mashup of weird fantasy and hard science fiction.
All Caralee Vinnet has ever known is dust. Her whole world is made up of the stuff; water is the most precious thing in the cosmos. A privileged few control what elements remain. But the world was not always a dust bowl and the green is not all lost.
Caralee has a secret—she has magic in her bones and can draw up power from the sand beneath her feet to do her bidding. But when she does she winds up summoning a monster: the former god-king who broke the world 800 years ago and has stolen the body of her best friend.
Caralee will risk the whole world to take back what she’s lost. If her new companion doesn’t kill her first.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this quirky, postapocalyptic sci-fi outing from Edison (The Waking Engine) a ragtag crew of misfits learns to move past first impressions and unfortunate beginnings. Eight hundred years before the start of the book, the Earth was purportedly blasted into a desert wasteland by one of its own rulers, the Son of the Vine. He was eventually captured and confined in stone—but when Caralee Vinnet, a sandymancer (or elemental wizard), throws a rage tantrum, she inadvertently releases him from his imprisonment. The disembodied Son takes over the body of Caralee's friend, Joe Dunes, and seeks to understand what has become of the world in the years since his banishment, learning of the apocalyptic weather conditions and the arrival of aliens. Determined to save Joe, Caralee accompanies the Son as he tries to repair the broken world. Along the way, Caralee learns the true history of the Son's role in Earth's ecological collapse while growing into her own sandymancer powers. After a slow start, readers will be drawn in by the well-realized characters and the weird westernesque setting. Edison makes this dystopia fun.
