The Stone trilogy
3 primary works Complete
Book 1
Graham Edwards has already hooked lovers of dragons. Now with this fabulous first book in a new trilogy, he is destined to add to his following all readers of sword-and-sorcery fantasy. Trapped in an iceberg, Archan, the sole surviving dragon from Dragonflame, is on the move -- the iceberg sails mysteriously into the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. The balance of nature shifts. The eruption of Krakatoa, 1883, is the result. Jonah Lightfoot, journeying in the East Indies in search of the Cradle of Mankind, is hurled between worlds. With him is Annie West, an adventurous American on the run from her violent husband. Through a series of fabulous landscapes they arrive in the world of Stone. It is a spooky other-world, an endless Wall with exotic foliage crammed between the stones, air that is alive and flowing...and it is populated by stone-age humans as well as dragons, and the strangest of creatures, the Ypoth, whose task it is to repair the Wall whenever it is breached. Annie is taken over by Frey, the evil shaman of the natives, and Jonah needs the aid of the Ypoth -- but he doesn't know about Archan, nor the enchantments Frey has already worked...
Book 2
IN A WORLD BEYOND THE WORLD, DRAGONS AND WONDERS: the second book in a fantasy trilogy of huge charm and dynamism, and great potential. The Turned World has become our own world, almost. The story begins in the 19th century with the eruption of Krakatoa -- and the reader is hurled, brilliantly, BETWEEN worlds. Through a series of fabulous landscapes our heroes arrive at the Wall. This is the world of Stone, called Amara -- and a world as coherent as McCaffrey's Pern yet as relevant to the reader's own view of the universe as John Crowley's Aegypt series. Edwards is a very significant writer in this respect. The Wall shelters entirely new and strange creatures, such as the Tam, insectile beings that evolve rapidly to sentience whenever there is a breach in the Wall, which they repair and then revert. There are stone-age human settlements in extraordinary buildings, plant life between the cracks in the stones of the wall -- and the dragon descendants of characters from the first series. The story is action-packed and the plot extremely strong. Added to this, the central characters develop in totally convincing if startling directions.
Book 3
The ultimate battleground has been chosen. Jonah and Archan the dragon will meet for the final confrontation at the place they had once thought impossible to reach: the very top of Stone's mighty wall. The ascent soon becomes a race, for whoever can reach the high ground first will surely win the battle. A thousand worlds must be crossed before the summit is reached and in this race there is no second prize. Jonah is carried aloft by the Bark. With him is the mysterious Tom Steppe, flung to Stone from Mount St Helens in 1980 and, more mysterious still, the diminutive Mister Ren, who claims to be immortal. Both turn out to be crucial to the success of the mission but in quite unexpected ways. Archan has the endless power of charm and also a secret ally Jonah has unwittingly delivered into her claws. At the uppermost tip of Stone, the final truths about the nature of Stone can be revealed. In the glare of the guardian sun the fate of Stone hangs by a thread. Only if Jonah Lightfoot can destroy the immortal Archan can the future begin again.