Empress of Dust
Book 1 of The Bastion Cycle
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Pub Date 15 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 29 Nov 2026
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Description
**Small Spec Book Awards 2025 winner for Science Fiction!**
**An Indie Ink 2024 Finalist!**
There are monsters outside the city walls.
Harvard is small, anxious, and plagued by a constant tremor, which is not an ideal combination for a desert scavenger. He and his crew are under constant threat of desertwalker attacks, and Harvard is nearly useless against them.
When the biggest mistake of Harvard’s life separates him from his crew, he must learn the secrets of the desert beasts in order to survive the dangers of the dusts. Returning to Bastion with a surprising ally, Harvard is forced to choose between saving his crew or allying with the “monsters” who rescued him.
Harvard never saw himself as a hero, but when the beasts of the dusts implore him to aid their rescue mission, he holds the lives of crabs and humans alike in his trembling hands.
For awesome post-apocalyptic action, where Earth is ruled by gargantuan crab beasts, get your copy of Empress of Dust today!
Advance Praise
Alex Kingsley's brain is a swashbuckler, flamboyant, effortless and never where you think it will be. Beautiful monsters, complex, flawed, intensely lovable characters and a sense of humour as wide-armed and inclusive as it is dark eyed and incisive. Brilliant stuff."
-Hugo-nominated writer Alasdair Stuart
"Full of fun and imaginative adventures... Empress of Dust repeatedly broke my heart, and in the end, left my heart warmed."
-Sue Burke, author of the Semiosis trilogy
"This book is wild and weird, but within it beats a very human (and also a not-so human) heart.”
- R.W.W Greene, author of The First Planets duology
"A great read for fans of Hunger Games and Maze Runner - an unforgiving society, an unforgiving desert, and a very forgiving protagonist whose compassion might help to change both."
-Aimee Ogden, author of Emergent Properties
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781960247261 |
| PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 395 |