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The Siege of Burning Grass Premee Mohamed

The Siege of Burning Grass By Premee Mohamed

The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed


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Summary

Antiwar activist Alefret, locked up in a secret prison and tortured, is offered a chance of freedom, ordered into one of the enemys flying cities to provoke his fellow pacifists into rising against their rulers. He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all?

The Siege of Burning Grass Summary

The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

The Empires of Varkal and Medariz have always been at war.

Alefret, the founder of Varkals pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a visionary scientist. But now theyre offering him a chance of freedom.

Ordered to infiltrate one of Medarizs flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemys population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?

The Siege of Burning Grass Reviews

A wonderful adventure, rife with strange heart and weird horror. -- Chuck Wendig on Beneath the Rising
Every reveal is gasp-out-loud astonishing. -- Charlie Jane Anders on Beneath the Rising
Expertly melds sci-fi, horror, and literary elements. -- Publishers Weekly on A Broken Darkness
Compelling and profound. Mohammed is an important voice in contemporary fantasy. -- Gareth L. Powell
I plunged into The Siege of Burning Grass knowing nothing except that Premee Mohamed wrote it. What more did I need? And yet, it astonished me. A colossal work of fiction and philosophy, Siege is something like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind meets The Things They Carried by way of The Brothers Karamazov. I loved Alefret, Mohameds monstrous man of peace, instantly and wholly. I feared for him, I suffered with him, I raged alongside him, all against a backdrop of gorgeous and lonely immensity. I wanted nothing for days but to be reading this book. -- C. S. E. Cooney, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Saint Deaths Daughter
Dark, complex and powerful -- Claire North
Premee Mohamed is a fantastic new voice in speculative fiction, one of the most innovative, original, and exciting writers of recent years, full of fresh perspectives, scintillating narratives, and insightful comments on our world today. -- Ada Palmer
Elegiac, elegant, Mohamed is merciless in how she holds the world to task for its cruelties and effortless in how she presents its horrors. This is a book with its heart on its sleeve, but also one that tells of how many have been left in the ground. -- Cassandra Khaw, USA Today best-selling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Imagine The Good Soldier Svejk and George Smiley sitting down with a large bottle of absinthe and the scene being painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Or, more practically, you could read The Siege of Burning Grass and get a very similar effect. Why would you deny yourself an experience like that? -- Jonathan L. Howard, author of Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
An engrossing, unflinching story. Premee's world of floating cities, medicinal wasps, and nations at war is both richly imagined and heartrending. -- Darcie Little Badger
This book has urgent things to say about the world at war, and now more than ever, you need to hear them. -- Vajra Chandrasekera
A haunting and insightful examination of the human capacity for violence and mercy. Publishers Weekly

About Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues.

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NGR9781837860463
9781837860463
1837860467
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
New
Hardback
Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
2024-03-14
432
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