Marie Brennan 
A Star Shall Fall 

It is 1759, and scientists are mapping the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition. The fae of the Onyx Court fear that magic is losing its place in the world—and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes. Yet they and the mortals above may have to harness both magic and science to defeat a common foe. A comet is coming, one to which a great foe is harnessed. They cannot defeat it by magic alone, and time is running out…

A propos de l’auteur

Marie Brennan is a former academic with a background in archaeology, anthropology, and folklore, which she now puts to rather cockeyed use in writing fantasy. She is the critically acclaimed author of the Lady Trent series, as well as the Doppelganger and Onyx Court novels, six novellas and more than thirty short stories. She won two Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Grand Prizes.