Arcane America
A new world. New magic. New history.
After
Halley’s Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash
separated the entire New World from the
Old in an event known as The
Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very
different
place, where magic works and history has been changed
forever.
It is 1803—a new 1803. Young Meriwether Lewis, footloose and
intrigued, goes to hear a lecture in St. Louis by the
venerated old wizard
Benjamin Franklin. Franklin’s talk is disrupted by the attack of a winged
fire-breathing beast,
much like legends from Lewis’s own Welsh
heritage. In the aftermath, Franklin tells the young man that he knows of
a
great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of
the Mississippi.
Using his own vast fortune, Franklin commissions Lewis and
his own talented partner William Clark to embark on a
remarkable voyage of
exploration, to meet and document the indigenous tribes, to find a route all the
way to the Pacific
Ocean—and perhaps beyond the magical veil to Europe
again—and to stop the growing evil that is filling the
American West.
For while the Sundering separated the rest of the world and granted the original
colonists unexpected
magical gifts, sorcery inspired by native legends has
also been ignited. And the Arcane Territories may hold
unparalleled dangers
for the expedition, both natural and magical.
Accompanied by the brilliant
shape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark set off on an
unparalleled
adventure across a landscape that no European has ever
seen.
Author Biography:
Kevin J. Anderson has published more than 140 books, 56 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as unique steampunk fantasy novels Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, written with legendary rock drummer Neil Peart, based on the concept album by the band Rush. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series, the Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy, the Saga of Shadows trilogy, and his humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie PI. He has edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and the lyrics to two rock CDs. Anderson and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press. Sarah A. Hoyt, under various names, is the author of over 30 books--she gets tangled up when she tries to count them and always misses a couple--in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and historical fiction.
Her first published novel, Ill Met by Moonlight, was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award. Darkship Thieves, the first novel of her popular Darkship Thieves series is a Prometheus Award Winner.
She's published over 100 short stories in magazines such as Analog, Asimov's and Weird Tales, (and others, some no longer in existence) as well as an array of science fiction, fantasy and mystery anthologies.
Sarah was born and raised in Portugal and now lives in Colorado, near her two grown sons, with her husband and a varying clowder of cats. English is her third language, but she can swear fluently in seven. When not laying down words on the latest manuscript, she can be found refinishing furniture, walking, or studying history.
