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Icarus Descending
Icarus Descending
Icarus Descending
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Icarus Descending

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Wendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogy—and their lives hang on one question: “What is Icarus?”
Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast’annin sees himself as the last hope for the Ascendants as they fight against the dangerous energumens. Outside the destroyed City of Trees, Wendy Wanders finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious Icarus to turn the tide of the rebellion. With the Philip K. Dick Award–nominated Icarus Descending, Elizabeth Hand completes the sensual dystopian Winterlong trilogy. And the explosive conclusion will reveal the final fates of geneslaves, the Ascendants, and the legendary combat leader Metatron as all eyes look to the sky for Icarus. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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Release dateOct 30, 2012
ISBN9781453278956
Icarus Descending
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Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of sixteen multiple-award-winning novels and six collections of short fiction. She is a longtime reviewer for numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her noir novels featuring punk photographer Cass Neary have been compared to the work of Patricia Highsmith and optioned for a TV series. Hand teaches at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and, when not living under pandemic conditions, divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    she writes terrific beginnings, but she's no good at endings. does she run out of time, or lose interest, i wonder? she is well worth reading, for her interesting characters and her great world-building, i recommend her highly really. and the Winterlong series as a whole is excellent. but every story she writes has a tendency to run down before it ends. it's a bit of a problem.
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    One of the most deeply I satisfying endings to a book and a trilogy I have ever experienced. Many important subplots are never resolved.

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