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    Stories of the Raksura: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below

    By Martha Wells

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    Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells. Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical. "The Dead City" is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. As Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly caravanserai finds itself under attack by a strange force. In "The Dark Earth Below," Moon and Jade face their biggest adventure yet; their first clutch. But even as Moon tries to prepare for impending fatherhood, members of the Kek village in the colony tree's roots go missing, and searching for them only leads to more mysteries as the court is stalked by an unknown enemy. Stories of Moon and the shape changers of Raksura have delighted readers for years. This world is a dangerous place full of strange mysteries, where the future can never be taken for granted and must always be fought for with wits and ingenuity, and often tooth and claw. With these two new novellas, Martha Wells shows that the world of the Raksura has many more stories to tell...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateJun 2, 2015
    ISBN9781597805803
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    Stories of the Raksura: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below
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    Martha Wells

    Martha Wells is the author of five previous novels: The Wizard Hunters, the first book of the Fall of Ile-Rien, The Element of Fire, City of Bones, Wheel of the Infinite, and The Death of the Necromancer, which was nominated for the Nebula Award. She lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband.

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    • 5/5
      I delayed the start of reading this collection of two novellas and three short stories because I wanted to savor the knowledge that there was more Rakursa fiction out there waiting for me. I've loved every installment in the Books of the Raksura - the inventive, creative fantasy world populated by so many kinds of sentient beings that I think Wells could write 100 books and we'd still only meet a few of them. The world-building is such a breath of fresh air!And the Raksuran characters don't disappoint either. Shapeshifters that have reptilian/winged forms and bipedal humanish "groundling" forms, they are predators and farmers, fierce fighters and loyal friends, doting parents and generous lovers. They live in complex societies in mountain-sized trees in the upper levels of a vast forest teeming with unknown and threatening life, but also really like to go on adventures. I mean, what's not to love?"The Dead City," a novella, is one of Moon's adventures shortly after he first met the Fell. Traveling in a blur of confusion and depression, he meets up with some groundlings. Letting himself get pulled into the danger happening nearby allows him to reclaim purpose and direction.The short story "Mimesis" follows Jade out in the forest with some of her warriors. When one of them goes missing, she goes off the rescue him, but going alone may not be the wisest thing."Trading Lesson" is a short story where Moon's previous experiences in the groundling world serve his colony some good when traders come to visit."The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-Ship Escarpment" is a short story about non Raksuran people's in another part of the Three Worlds who have agreed to broker paying a ransom to pirates. Will it be the last thing they ever do?The final novella, "The Dark Earth Below," happens a year and a half after the events of "The Siren Depths." Jade is about to have her first clutch, Moon is terrified, and everyone is bored from the lack of adventures and challenges when the Kek at the foot of their mountain-tree signal for help. The Raksura get more involved with life in the bottom layers of the forest than may be good for them.
    • 4/5
      I didn't get into these novellas as much as I did with the first volume of short stories/novellas. This could be a sign that I need to spread the books in this series out more, or it could simply be that these stories weren't as intriguing or entertaining as the ones in the previous book. Either way it took me much longer to get through this short volume than anticipated. I did, however, really enjoy the very last few pages of the last novella where Moon is with his first clutch. I am very interested to see how that plays out in the next two books.