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The gossamer mage / Julie E. Czerneda.

by Czerneda, Julie, 1955-

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Daw Books, Inc., 2019.

Imaginary places -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Goddesses -- Fiction.

Magicians -- Fiction.

Scribes -- Fiction.

Aging -- Fiction.

9780756412340 (trade pbk.)

401 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Only in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the Deathless Goddess. Only in this small, forbidden realm are there those haunted by words of no language known to woman or man. The words are Her Gift, and they summon magic. Mage scribes learn to write Her words as intentions: spells to make beasts or plants, designed to any purpose. If an intention is flawed, what the mage creates is a gossamer: a magical creature as wild and free as it is costly for the mage. For Her Gift comes at a steep price. Each successful intention ages a mage until they dare no more. But her magic demands to be used; the Deathless Goddess will take her fee, and mages will die. To end this terrible toll, the greatest mage in Tananen vows to find and destroy Her. He has yet to learn She is all that protects Tananen from what waits outside. And all that keeps magic alive.

Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel, 2020.

Fantasy fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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