<div>The pueblo people who landed on the Fifth World found it Earthlike, empty, and ready for colonization . . . but a century later, they are about to meet the planet&rsquo;s owners One hundred years ago, Sand&rsquo;s ancestors made the long, one-way trip to the Fifth World, ready to work ceaselessly to terraform the planet. Descendants of native peoples like the Hopi and Zuni, they wanted to return to the way of life of their forebears, who honored the Kachina spirits. Now, though, many of the planet&rsquo;s inhabitants have begun to resent their grandparents&rsquo; decision to strand them in this harsh and forbidding place, and some have turned away from the customs of the Well-Behaved People. Sand has her doubts, but she longs to believe that the Kachina live on beyond the stars and have been readying a new domain for her people. She may be right. Humans have discovered nine habitable worlds, all with life that shares a genetic code entirely alien to any on Earth. Someone has been seeding planets, bringing life to them. But no other sign of the ancient farmers has ever been discovered&mdash;until one day they return to the Fifth World. They do not like what they find. <a>Originally written in 1994, Footsteps in the Sky is finally being released in digital form by Open Road Media</a>.</div>

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Footsteps in the Sky

<div>A princess and a barbarian warrior battle a god in this dark fantasy, the &ldquo;impressive debut&rdquo; from the author of The Briar King (Publishers Weekly). Hezhi is a princess, daughter of a royal family whose line was founded by the god known as the River. Her blood is not only royal, it is magic, with a power that will not become known until she approaches adulthood. As she grows into her gift, she will take her place in court&mdash;or be judged unworthy and cast into the darkness below the palace. When Hezhi&rsquo;s cousin D&rsquo;en is kidnapped by the priests and taken below, Hezhi vows to rescue him. But he is trapped in the domain of the River, and she will need a hero to help her find her way in the dark. Perhaps that hero is Perkar, a barbarian who has fallen in love with the goddess of the stream. When the River threatens to destroy Perkar&rsquo;s love, he embarks on a quest that will take him to Hezhi&rsquo;s side to do battle with a god.</div>

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The Waterborn

<div>In this &ldquo;strikingly imaginative&rdquo; sequel to The Waterborn, an emperor&rsquo;s daughter flees into the wasteland, pursued by an angry god (Kirkus Reviews). The daughter of the emperor, Hezhi has been blessed with untold strength: powers that could change the world. Fearful of this teenage upstart, the god known as the River demands that she be brought in line&mdash;or put to death, as all who challenge the River must be. He sends an assassin to follow her, but with the help of a barbarian named Perkar, Hezhi fights back&mdash;and nearly destroys the River altogether. She flees the city, striking out into the wilderness in hopes of finding a safe haven beyond the reach of the River&rsquo;s agents. But no matter where she goes, Hezhi cannot find peace. When she meets the River&rsquo;s brother, the trickster known as the Blackgod, he offers a way to destroy the River at the source. Caught between two warring deities, Hezhi must learn to master her power&mdash;or watch as the world is consumed by water.</div>

The Blackgod

<div>Angels and demons alike watch and wait as the last warriors of old Europe invade the New World in this magnificent conclusion to the Age of Unreason alternate history series The alchemical catastrophe that Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed late in the seventeenth century has transformed Europe into a cold, dead wasteland in the eighteenth&mdash;much to the delight of the otherworldly malakim, who have set humanity at war with itself for the sin of dabbling in the arcane. The last inhabitable territory, the New World, is now the coveted prize of the surviving European warlords. From the West, Russian forces led by the Sun Boy, child of the powerful French sorceress Adrienne de Mornay de Montchevreuil, move relentlessly onward, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. British troops in the East are equally merciless in their conquests. All that stands against them is a motley alliance of colonists, Native Americans, scientists, philosophers, displaced Europeans, and others led by Ben Franklin, now an alchemist of great repute, and Red Shoes, a Choctaw shaman with questionable motivations. But no matter who wins or loses, the manipulating angels and demons are always watching, and the malakim are determined to be the ultimate victors. In The Shadows of God, the Age of Unreason, Greg Keyes&rsquo;s magnificent alternate history series, comes to a stunning and most satisfying conclusion. It is the final chapter in a colorful, exciting, richly detailed, and ingeniously imagined chronicle of life on a damaged Earth where magic and science are on equal planes and history&rsquo;s icons inhabit a past that never was.</div>

The Shadows of God

<div>On an eighteenth-century Earth crippled by alchemical disaster, a secret American cabal led by Benjamin Franklin strives to prevent the annihilation of humankind The dark magic that the great alchemist Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed with his discovery of philosopher&rsquo;s mercury has taken a devastating toll on Earth: The destruction of Europe and the advent of eternal winter have aided the mysterious malakim in their apparent quest for the annihilation of the human race. In the American colonies, Benjamin Franklin hones his alchemical skills and prepares the Junto&mdash;his secret cabal of scientists, Native American tribesmen, former slaves, and fugitive European intellectuals&mdash;for the upcoming battle for humankind&rsquo;s survival as the army of the Scottish &ldquo;pretender&rdquo; king James Stuart invades the continent to reestablish British dominion. Meanwhile, on the other side of a shockingly diminished world, in the court of the mysteriously vanished Peter the Great, the missing tsar&rsquo;s chief alchemist, Adrienne de Mornay de Montchevreuil, prepares to depart Russia in search of her lost son, who may well be at the heart of the conspiracy of malevolent angels to eliminate the human scourge. The third volume in author Greg Keyes&rsquo;s ingenious Age of Unreason alternate history series, Empire of Unreason broadens the story, elevates the action, and reveals secrets within secrets as the surviving inhabitants of this different, endangered world race frantically toward a climactic confrontation.</div>

Empire of Unreason

<div>In an alternate eighteenth-century Europe devastated by alchemical disaster, Sir Isaac Newton and his able assistant, Benjamin Franklin, confront enemies who seek humankind&rsquo;s destruction Sir Isaac Newton&rsquo;s discovery of philosopher&rsquo;s mercury in 1681 gave rise to a remarkable new branch of alchemical science. Forty years later, the world stands poised on the brink of a new dark age . . . England is in ruins, crushed by an asteroid called to Earth by the very alchemy Newton unleashed. France is in chaos following the long-delayed death of Louis XIV. Cotton Mather, Blackbeard, and the Choctaw shaman Red Shoes set sail from the American colonies to investigate the silence lying over the Old World. And in Russia, Tsar Peter the Great, now host to the evil entity that kept the Sun King alive, seizes a golden opportunity for conquest as he marches his unstoppable army across a devastated continent. Meanwhile Newton and his young apprentice, Ben Franklin, hide out in Prague, awaiting the inevitable violent collision of all these disparate elements&mdash;human and demonic alike&mdash;while a fugitive Adrienne de Mornay de Montchevreuil pursues the secrets of the malakim and her own role in their conspiracy to obliterate humankind. The second volume of the Age of Unreason series, Greg Keyes&rsquo;s masterwork of alternate history, A Calculus of Angels brilliantly expands the scope of the world he introduced in Newton&rsquo;s Cannon as an unforgettable cast of historical heavyweights collide on a different Earth where magic and science coexist.</div>

A Calculus of Angels

<div>This novel of Ben Franklin, Isaac Newton, and a demonic Louis XIV is &ldquo;eminently worthwhile reading for both fantasy and alternate-history lovers&rdquo; (Booklist). In 1681, in an England somewhat like our England . . . the great alchemist Sir Isaac Newton makes the remarkable discovery of a substance he calls philosopher&rsquo;s mercury, with which one can manipulate the four essential elements of the universe: earth, water, air, and fire. In the opulent court of Britain&rsquo;s greatest enemy, the ancient King Louis XIV, his life alchemically and indefinitely prolonged, employs treacherous means to obtain the prize that will grant him dominion over the entire continent. Meanwhile, his brilliant and beautiful mistress, Adrienne de Mornay de Montchevreuil, secretly pursues a mathematical method to prevent his takeover. And in another corner of the world, the young printer&rsquo;s apprentice and aspiring alchemist Ben Franklin is plagued by a demon and flees to England seeking the aid of his hero: Newton. But Franklin will discover that Newton has demons of his own . . . A wondrously dark and richly imagined alternate history, Greg Keyes&rsquo;s Newton&rsquo;s Cannon is the first book in his extraordinary Age of Unreason series&mdash;a magnificent journey to a past that never was in a world where magic is a science and the greatest minds must conspire to prevent an end to all things.</div>

Newton's Cannon

<div>Ben Franklin must save the world when Isaac Newton unleashes dark magic in this &ldquo;ambitious&rdquo; alternate history series by a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (Library Journal). Greg Keyes reimagines the eighteenth-century as an era of apocalyptic sorcery in which a young printer&rsquo;s apprentice named Benjamin Franklin joins forces with a host of historical personages to prevent humankind&rsquo;s annihilation by demons and black magic inadvertently released by the great British alchemist, Sir Isaac Newton. Newton&rsquo;s Cannon: Isaac Newton&rsquo;s discovery of philosopher&rsquo;s mercury threatens to destroy all human life on Earth, unless he and his new American prot&eacute;g&eacute;, young Benjamin Franklin, can keep the substance out of the malevolent hands of France&rsquo;s King Louis XIV. &ldquo;An intricately crafted, elegantly delivered story filled with idealism and betrayal, adventure, and philosophy . . . fascinating&rdquo; (Library Journal). A Calculus of Angels: A demonic conspiracy has destroyed England while unleashing chaos and terror upon the world. A possessed Peter the Great marches his conquering armies across a devastated Europe. And Newton and Franklin prepare for Armageddon. Empire of Unreason: As eternal winter descends upon Earth, Franklin returns to the American colonies to hone his alchemical skills and ready his secret cabal of scientists, Native Americans, and former slaves for the upcoming battle for humankind&rsquo;s survival. &ldquo;The most original fantasy I have read in years&rdquo; (Kevin K. Anderson, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author). The Shadows of God: Angels and demons watch and wait as the last warriors of dead Europe invade the New World intent on defeating Ben Franklin&rsquo;s American alliance and conquering the colonies. &ldquo;Inventive and exciting, filled with clever details and high adventure&rdquo; (Science Fiction Chronicle).</div>

The Age of Unreason

<div>A princess and a warrior battle deities in this &ldquo;ambitious fantasy series . . . full of ghosts, gods, magic, and mischief&rdquo; from a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Weaving a &ldquo;richly detailed tapestry, steeped in American Indian myth and lore&rdquo; (Booklist) as well as sword and sorcery, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Greg Keyes has created an unforgettable &ldquo;epic fantasy world of myth and magic reminiscent of Terry Brooks&rsquo; work&rdquo; (Library Journal). The Waterborn: The destinies of a young princess with magical power and a barbarian warrior from another land armed with an enchanted sword come together as they battle a vengeful River god. &ldquo;A satisfyingly robust, impressive debut that offers genuine surprises&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). The Blackgod: Fleeing for their lives, the princess Hezhi and the warrior Perkar find refuge in the domain of the River god&rsquo;s brother, the trickster known as Blackgod. Caught between two warring deities, Hezhi must master her power&mdash;before all is lost in this &ldquo;richly developed page-turner&rdquo; (Booklist).</div>

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Books By Greg Keyes (9 Books)

Footsteps in the Sky

The Waterborn

The Blackgod

The Shadows of God

Empire of Unreason

A Calculus of Angels

Newton's Cannon

The Age of Unreason

Chosen of the Changeling

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