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.
Key facts about The Aeronaut's Windlass
Jim Butcher wrote The Aeronaut's Windlass, a novel on our list. It has been out since 29 September 2015. The book has 630 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780451466808 to find the main one.
The Aeronaut's Windlass is book 1 of 3 in The Cinder Spires series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Olympian Affair is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 November 2023.
Additionally, Jim Butcher writes The Dresden Files and Codex Alera as separate series. Those series sit on our urban fantasy, epic fantasy and steampunk fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Out Law is the latest published Jim Butcher book on file, from 5 May 2026.
About Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is an American author best known for The Dresden Files, a long-running urban fantasy series following Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard-for-hire, as he investigates supernatural crimes for both paying clients and the city police. See every Jim Butcher book in order.
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