Arcane America
A new world. New magic. New history.
After
Halley’s Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash
separated the entire New World from the
Old in an event known as The
Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very
different
place, where magic works and history has been changed
forever.
It is 1803—a new 1803. Young Meriwether Lewis, footloose and
intrigued, goes to hear a lecture in St. Louis by the
venerated old wizard
Benjamin Franklin. Franklin’s talk is disrupted by the attack of a winged
fire-breathing beast,
much like legends from Lewis’s own Welsh
heritage. In the aftermath, Franklin tells the young man that he knows of
a
great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of
the Mississippi.
Using his own vast fortune, Franklin commissions Lewis and
his own talented partner William Clark to embark on a
remarkable voyage of
exploration, to meet and document the indigenous tribes, to find a route all the
way to the Pacific
Ocean—and perhaps beyond the magical veil to Europe
again—and to stop the growing evil that is filling the
American West.
For while the Sundering separated the rest of the world and granted the original
colonists unexpected
magical gifts, sorcery inspired by native legends has
also been ignited. And the Arcane Territories may hold
unparalleled dangers
for the expedition, both natural and magical.
Accompanied by the brilliant
shape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark set off on an
unparalleled
adventure across a landscape that no European has ever
seen.
- ISBN10 1481483234
- ISBN13 9781481483230
- Publish Date 14 May 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English