Banner of Souls

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 426, [14]. Glossy pictorial wraps. A preview chapter of Liz Williams's next book, Darkland, printed at rear. First published in the U.S. by Bantam Books in 2004.

Author's fifth novel. Shortlisted for the 20th Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2006. A Philip K. Dick Award nominee. In the far-distant future a flooded and shattered Earth is governed by the iron hand of the Martian Matriarchy. The first in the Banner of Souls sequence, followed by Winterstrike (2008). "Places Liz Williams in the first rank of visionary science fiction writers." –Charles Stross