The Cinder Spires · Book 1
The Aeronaut's Windlass
- Published
- 29 September 2015
- Pages
- 630
- ISBN-13
- 9780451466808
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Aeronaut's Windlass (2015) opens Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires at 630 pages, introducing the vertical steampunk world of stone spires, airship warfare, and a scene-stealing cat narrator -- full swashbuckling adventure next to the noir wisecracks of his Dresden Files.
Its place in The Cinder Spires
The Aeronaut's Windlass is book 1 in the The Cinder Spires series. It is followed by Warriorborn. See the full The Cinder Spires reading order.
Humanity never lives on the ground in Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires — the surface is ruled by monsters, so what's left of civilization survives in enormous stone spires reaching miles into the sky, city-states linked and divided by airships that ride crystal-powered lattices of aetheric currents. When the ambitious Spire Albion is invaded by rival Spire Aurora, a mismatched crew, a young noblewoman's daughter turned reluctant Guard officer, a self-taught etherealist's apprentice, a disgraced privateer captain, and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451466808
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451466815