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Scheherazade meets Dumas: City of Bones is a wondrous Arabian Nights fantasy from a rising new
talent in the field.

A finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook Award, Martha Wells’s first work, The Element of Fire, earned
such acclaim as:

“A fascinating read...I had to finish it up in one fell swoop staying up until 2:30 to do so, and hadn’t
known I’d spent that much time in her world!”

— Anne McCaffrey

“A richly detailed world of court intrigue, family tensions, and magical marvels.”

— Steve Gould, author of jumper



City of Bones

Now, with City of Bones, Wells shapes a fabled and mysterious Arabian Nights wonderland in which
science and magic meet in a head-on clash. It is a place that has been devastated by an ancient
holocaust, and where most of the world’s water has evaporated.
But out of the ashes, a bizarre and wonderful civilization arises. Sand ships now traverse the routes
once used by the great war galleons, and a glittering chain of city-states dot the Great Waste. And
greatest of them all is Charisat. Charisat, Imperial seat and wonder of wonders, a great monolithic
structure towering over the desert. Charisat, a phantasmagorical place where silken courtesans and
beggars weave lies side by side, where any man’s dreams can be fulfilled at the whisper of a genie, and
where the tier that you live on determines how high up the food (or more importantly, water) chain you
are.
Charisat, the goal of every schemer, treasure hunter, and madman intent on finding his heart’s content.
For if it can’t be had in Charisat, it’s not worth having.
A beautiful woman and a handsome thief try to unravel the mysteries of an age-old technology to stop
a fanatical cult before its members unleash an evil that will topple Charisat.
And destroy all the water in the world.
City of Bones is a rollicking fantasy adventure, filled with evil mages and beautiful maidens, wily
thieves and deadly palace intrigues. It’s a joyride of a novel, and one that we hope you will enjoy.




Tor books by Martha Wells

The Elements of Fire
City of Bones