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Notorious sorcerer / Davinia Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The burnished city ; book onePublisher: New York, NY : Orbit, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 435 pages : map ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316398039
  • 0316398039
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Ever since the city of Bezim was shaken half into the sea by a magical earthquake, the Inquisitors have policed alchemy with brutal efficiency. Nothing too powerful, too complicated, too much like real magic is allowed--and the careful science that's left is kept too expensive for any but the rich and indolent to tinker with. Siyon Velo, a glorified errand boy scraping together lesson money from a little inter-planar fetch and carry, doesn't qualify. But when Siyon accidentally commits a public act of impossible magic, he's catapulted into the limelight. Except the limelight is a bad place to be when the planes themselves start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send the rest of the city into the sea. Now Siyon, a dockside brat who clawed his way up and proved himself on rooftops with saber in hand, might be Bezim's only hope. Because if they don't fix the cascading failures of magic in their plane, the Powers and their armies in the other three will do it for them"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy EVANS, DAVINIA Available 33111010901862
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Vibrant, explosive, deliciously dangerous, and impossibly fun." --Tasha Suri



"A brilliant alchemical recipe!" --Olivia Atwater



"I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut." --Shannon Chakraborty



A wickedly entertaining fantasy debut bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist.

Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night, and where rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the four planes of reality.



Siyon Velo, Dockside brat turned petty alchemist, scrapes a living hopping between the planes to harvest ingredients for the city's alchemists. But when Siyon accidentally commits an act of impossible magic, he's catapulted into the limelight--which is a bad place to be when the planes start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send the city into the sea.



It will take a miracle to save Bezim. Good thing Siyon has pulled off the impossible before. Now he just has to master it.



The Burnished City

Notorious Sorcerer

Includes an interview with the author and an excerpt from The undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen.

"Ever since the city of Bezim was shaken half into the sea by a magical earthquake, the Inquisitors have policed alchemy with brutal efficiency. Nothing too powerful, too complicated, too much like real magic is allowed--and the careful science that's left is kept too expensive for any but the rich and indolent to tinker with. Siyon Velo, a glorified errand boy scraping together lesson money from a little inter-planar fetch and carry, doesn't qualify. But when Siyon accidentally commits a public act of impossible magic, he's catapulted into the limelight. Except the limelight is a bad place to be when the planes themselves start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send the rest of the city into the sea. Now Siyon, a dockside brat who clawed his way up and proved himself on rooftops with saber in hand, might be Bezim's only hope. Because if they don't fix the cascading failures of magic in their plane, the Powers and their armies in the other three will do it for them"-- Provided by publisher.

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