The Great Library of Tomorrow
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
AFTERWORD BY DJ STEVE AOKI
Fueled by the same collaborative heart and boundless imagination that dazzle millions of devoted Tomorrowland followers and festivalgoers every year, The Great Library of Tomorrow is a stunningly original epic fantasy about a band of heroes who must defeat a malevolent enemy bent on destroying the openness, love, and creativity that sustain their many realms.
Helia has served as the Sage of Hope for the Great Library of Tomorrow for centuries. She is one of the chosen few who embody and protect the values of humanity across the numerous realms of Paperworld, which are connected within the Library itself via magical portals controlled by the Book of Wisdom.
But even her hope is tested when she and her partner, Xavier, the Sage of Truth, are attacked while visiting the famous Rose Garden in the realm of Silvyra. Wounded and in shock amid a storm of fire, they are confronted by a deadly figure known to them as the Ash Man. With the Garden destroyed and its dragon protector missing, Xavier sacrifices his life so that Helia can return home to warn the other Sages.
But there she finds the Book of Wisdom—always a guide to the Sages—eerily silent. With the Ash Man gaining strength, Helia soon finds herself in a race against time, searching for clues to the origins of their foe—and any possible way to defeat him.
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This earnest high fantasy from debut author Solace mingles sorcery and metafiction, with a magic system based on the act of storytelling itself. Helia, the Sage of Hope and one of the protectors of the Great Library that connects the various realms of the Paperworld, narrowly escapes an attack by a legendary villain, the Ash Man, but her partner, the Sage of Truth, is not so lucky. Now the Great Library and its founding Book of Wisdom are vulnerable to further violence from the Ash Man. Meanwhile, discontented copywriter Arturo, plucked from Mexico City, discovers that his way with words is amplified in the Library, where his written ideas come to life. Together with a junior staffer who acquires a Sage's Orb, an apprentice alchemist, and a wildcat airship crew, Arturo sets out to recover a missing dragon guardian and stop the Ash Man's agents from further infiltration. Solace places emphasis on the interior struggles of characters facing up to their vocations, though it leaves the plot around them to run along very familiar lines. The one-dimensional Ash Man is more of a straw man at times, but the angst of the protagonists rings true. Readers will be curious to see where Solace goes next.
