Chandler Klang Smith - 2018 - The Sky Is Yours (Fantasy)

The Sky Is Yours: A Novel - Chandler Klang Smith - 2018







By: Chandler Klang Smith

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins

Unabridged

Release date: 01-23-18

Language: English

Genre: Fantasy

Publisher: Random House Audio

Format: mp3 64/22.05 stereo



Publisher's Summary



A sprawling, genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons, this debut about what it's like to be young in a very old world is pure storytelling pleasure



In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs.



The Sky Is Yours is incredibly cinematic, bawdy, rollicking, hilarious, and utterly unforgettable, a debut that listeners who loved Cloud Atlas, Super Sad True Love Story, and Blade Runner will adore.



©2018 Chandler Klang Smith; 2018 Random House Audio



Critic Reviews



"Hyperimaginative...Smith's novel calls to mind the works of Nick Harkaway and Game of Thrones....An auspicious debut with enough inventiveness for two novels." (Publishers Weekly)



"Chandler Klang Smith comes roaring out the gate with a raucous, inventive gem of a debut. Science fiction, coming of age, and adventure novel, The Sky Is Yours blends its genres brilliantly. To top it all off the book is funny as hell." (Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Changeling)



"Brilliant, darkly hilarious, and almost impossible to describe. Imagine if Terry Gilliam adapted a coming-of-age adventure set in William Gibson's dystopian sprawl and threw in a dash of Jane Austen. I loved it." (Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char)[/size]















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