image of person or book cover 2399825168977767502.jpg
This image has been sourced from online.
y separately published work icon Dust & Rain single work   novel   fantasy  
Is part of Icefire Trilogy Patty Jansen , 2012 series - publisher novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Dust & Rain
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Fifteen years ago, a brilliant scientist built a barrier against the dangerous power that radiates from the City of Glass in the southern land, allowing the citizens of Chevakia to live without fear of their lives. Since then, the democracy of Chevakia has prospered, with free-thinking scientists developing steam power and the beginnings of electricity.

'But the power, which they call sonorics, controls the weather in Chevakia.

'Senator Sadorius han Chevonian is the country’s chief meteorologist. While taking measurements for his job, he is the first to notice a rapid rise of sonorics levels out-of-season. The senate is locked in trivial debate, and to make them listen, he has to take a step he never thought to make.

'After the huge explosion of the machine they call the Heart of the City, Loriane has fled the southern land with the sorcerer Tandor, who hovers in and out of consciousness. But while Tandor isn’t speaking, she cannot confirm her fears that he caused the explosion, and that the child she carries has something to do with his twisted plans to seize power from the Eagle Knights who rule the City of Glass.

'Just before the explosion, southern queen Jevaithi fled into Chevakia with her young lover Isandor. While they think they’re free of the tyranny of the Eagle Knights, it soon becomes clear something very bad has happened in the City of Glass soon after their escape. Something so bad that it sends waves of sonorics into Chevakia, causing even the Chevakians to flee.

'Several streams of refugees are heading for the Chevakian capital. Southerners by train, Chevakians by road, into a city that is tragically unprepared, a country in turmoil with a leader whose support hangs by the merest thread.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Missing limbs.
    Type of character Primary and secondary.
    Point of view Third person.

    Note: This work uses disability as a metaphorical note or literary device. Only characters with disability can use magic.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Icefire Trilogy Omnibus Patty Jansen , United States of America (USA) : Patty Jansen , 2013 8272272 2013 selected work novel

    Complete trilogy published in a single volume.

    United States of America (USA) : Patty Jansen , 2013

Other Formats

Last amended 19 Dec 2019 10:44:01
X