J. Gregory Keyes, Author . Del Rey $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43904-8
In the fourth and final volume in his Age of Unreason series (Newton's Cannon, etc.), Keyes brings his multi-threaded yarn to a thrilling conclusion. Based on the premise that Sir Isaac Newton devised a theory of alchemy that led to the...
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-345-44066-2
The author of the bestselling Age of Unreason tetralogy (The Waterborn, etc.) inaugurates the Kingdoms of Throne and Bone quartet with this epic high fantasy. The inhabitants of this splendid and dauntingly complex parallel world, Everon, are mostly
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-345-44067-9
The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes's fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003's The Briar King
. Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes's
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author . Del Rey $25.96 (495p) ISBN 978-0-345-44068-6
At the start of the third book in Keyes's Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (The Briar King
, etc.), princess Anne Dare's father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now...
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author Del Rey Books $14 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-40605-7
Enlightened science is transformed into blackest magic in the opening volume of Keyes's (The Waterborn) 18th-century alternative history, The Age of Unreason. Sir Isaac Newton turns alchemist to obtain Philosopher's Mercury, the key to cosmic end-of-
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author Del Rey Books $24 (559p) ISBN 978-0-345-40394-0
Keyes's epic sequel to The Waterborn unfolds in an animistic world of elemental nature gods and of humans and part-humans generally at war. Although filled with fantastic action, the novel is extraordinary for the force and originality of its...
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author Del Rey Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-40393-3
Many elements in Keyes's first novel are traditional to fantasy--gods, politics, a princess and a barbarian warrior--but they're mixed in unexpected ways. Facts about the imagined world are presented only as needed; the plotting flows logically,...
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J. Gregory Keyes, Author Del Rey Books $14 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-40609-5
Keyes's latest addition to his distinguished Age of Unreason series is a disappointment. Set, like its predecessors, in the 18th century, the book explores a world that's been knocked out of whack by Isaac Newton's alchemical discoveries. European...
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Greg Keyes. Night Shade, $14.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-1-59780-937-5
This ambitious but flawed first installment in Keyes’s High and Faraway series veers into puzzling and convoluted territory without enough backstory to keep it anchored. After attempting suicide, Errol Greyson wakes to find himself trapped inside a...
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