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Jay Amory
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Pirates of the Relentless DesertPirates of the Relentless Desert
The Fledging of Az GabrielsonThe Fledging of Az Gabrielson
About the Author
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British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Pirates of the Relentless Desert
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Up she came. The cloud cover parted around her nosecone, flowing back along her balloon in gauzy ribbons. Up she came, trailing skeins of vapour from her tailfins. Up, with her black-painted canvas shining dully in the sunlight.
`We didn’t find them,’ Az breathed. `They’ve found us.’
The Groundlings are under attack.
Approaching in darkness, in a huge airship. Airborn pirates are raiding refineries and pillaging Groundling factories taking by force the supplies which used to be offered as a tribute to the winged ‘gods’. And the Groundlings are getting ready to defend themselves …
Above the clouds, Mr Mordadson is dispatched to Redspire to put an end to the piracy ... taking the armed Airship Cerulean - with Az Gabrielson as Captain with him. But even on the ship there is unrest. Flight Lieutenant Wallimson hates Az with all his bitter, twisted and vindictive heart. and.plots to do whatever he can to undermine the wingless boy.
... and on the ground, unrest at Redspire is the last thing on Cassie’s mind. The family business has been destroyed by contact with the Airborn and they scrape a precarious living taking Airborn tourists on tours. But as trouble is stirred up between the Groundlings and Airborn - and Cackling Bertha is attacked - things go from had to worse for Cassie.
And then her father goes missing ...


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First British Edition Gollancz (2006)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Fledging of Az Gabrielson
The Clouded World book One
Az Gabrielson, the wingless boy, is going where none of the Airborn have gone before…
Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high above the clouds. It's a life of ease and airy beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful -- and isolated - oddity.
And then one day he is picked out for a job. A job below the clouds. The system of massive automated elevators which send up everything the Airborn need to survive, are breaking down - and threatening to take the Airborn society with them. Someone has to go down to the Ground to find out what has happened and Az, with his wingless similarity to the prehistoric Groundlings, looks to be perfect for the task of hunting for answers beneath the clouds.
But on the Ground, in the vast shadows of the cities, Az finds more questions than answers: a benighted people who worship a dim notion of the Airborn and aspire to be like them. A people who fill elevators with tributes to their winged deities. A people who are beginning to think their way of life is part of a very un-natural order of things.
And a girl called Cassie Grubdollar, who's definitely no angel …


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About The Author
The Fedging of Az Gabrielson is Jay Amory’s first full length novel. He is the author of several acclaimed adult novels written under another name. He is 40 years old and lives in Devon.
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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Pirates of the Relentless Desert (Gollancz Pbk, 2007)
  • The Fledging of Az Gabrielson (Gollancz, 2006)


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