The Books of the Raksura · Book 1
The Cloud Roads
- Published
- 1 March 2011
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN-13
- 9781522605430
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Cloud Roads (2011) opens Martha Wells' series, introducing Moon, a shapeshifter who's spent his life hiding his dragon-like true form, as he's finally found by others of his own kind -- the Raksura, a matriarchal, caste-structured flying people he never knew existed. It runs 392 pages and precedes The Serpent Sea.
Its place in The Books of the Raksura
The Cloud Roads is book 1 in the The Books of the Raksura series. It is followed by The Serpent Sea. See the full The Books of the Raksura reading order.
Moon has spent his entire life hiding what he is, drifting between short-lived communities of other species because revealing his shapeshifting, dragon-like true form has always meant being driven out or killed. The Cloud Roads (2011) begins when he's finally found by others of his own kind, the Raksura -- a matriarchal, caste-structured flying people he never knew existed -- and has to decide whether he can belong to a society built on rules he's never learned. Martha Wells builds an unusually detailed non-human…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781522605430