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How much is required of a man chosen by a god?
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Song of the Beast |
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by Carol Berg
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Brutal imprisonment has broken Aidan McAllister. His voice is silent,
his hands ruined, his music that once offered beauty and hope to
war-torn Elyria destroyed. The god who nurtured his talent since
boyhood has abandoned him. But no one ever told him his crime.
To discover the truth, he must risk his hard-bought freedom to
unlock the mind of his god and the heart of his enemy.
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Winner of the 2004 Colorado Book Award for genre fiction
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NAL/Roc Books
ISBN 0-451-45923-7
Cover art by Matt Stawicki
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Forthcoming 2/14/2010 from Norilana Books
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The Heart's Coda, a novelette by Carol Berg |
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What happens to a hero after the grand and terrible events of his story are over? When no one's seen him for almost three years, a trustworthy soul might be sent out to take a look, especially as events are turning serious in the world he changed:
One might expect the excitement of my first royal mission entirely exhausted after a lonely month's slogging through that chilly, rainy, miserable wilderness. But as I approached the summit of yet another steep rise, anticipation still shivered my skin. Would the man be waiting beyond this crest? The legend. The Dragon Singer. Aidan MacAllister, beloved of the gods. Would he dwell in a fortress of dragon bones or in a god-wrought temple? Or would I top the verdant, boulder-strewn slope and walk straight into one of his visions?
Tales said that at the height of his fame, before he was thrown into prison and broken, Aidan MacAllister's music could transport your soul right out of your body. No matter who you were or how terrible your circumstances, for that one hour you would exist in a place of beauty and harmony. What a wonder that must have been.
I scanned the clouds lowering over the crags and stretched my hearing into the unsettling quiet.
Then again, I might only find the beasts beyond the rise. The dragons. Perhaps I'd find naught of Aidan MaAllister but scorched bones.
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Lace and Blade 3 features stories of high fantasy by Tanith Lee, Diana Paxson, Jay Lake, and Judith Tarr, among others.
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Song of the Beast is or will be available:
In Russian, from Azbooka Publishers
In French, from Editions Bragelonne
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