Tor.com is pleased to reveal John Jude Palencar’s cover art for Silver on the Road. The first novel in Nebula award finalist Laura Anne Gilman’s new epic fantasy series, Silver in the Road publishes this October from Saga Press. Check out the full cover image and learn more about the series below!
From the catalog copy:
“The right hand gathers and gives, visible to all. But the left hand, Isobel, the manu sinistra? It moves in shadows, unseen, unheard…. Until I deem it time for it to be seen and heard. And when it moves, its work cannot be undone. It is the strength of the Territory, the quick knife in the darkness, the cold eye and the final word.”
She looked up, away from his hands, and was caught by a gaze the burnt gold of the morning sun.
“I have been lacking a left hand for too long, now. Are you strong enough for that, Isobel nee Lacoyo Távora? Is the iron in your spine, the fire in your blood, proof against my forging?”
Back East, they claim the so-called Devil’s West is overrun by magic, magicians, and monsters. But to Isobel, it’s home. She grew up in a saloon, trained to serve drinks and fold laundry, to read those who came to the gambling tables, and report back to her boss on what she saw.
But when she comes of age, she is given a choice….
Now the Territory’s Left Hand, Isobel takes to the road, accompanied by the laconic rider Gabriel, who will teach her about the Territory, its people and its laws. But she needs to learn quickly: The bones of the earth are cracking, and the Hand has work to do…
Beautiful cover and so evocative of the book — I was lucky enough to hear a reading from this work a week or so ago and no one writes like this author! I am looking forward to reading this story and have ordered books in all her other series as well.
I know nothing about the book, but the cover gave me strong feelings of the image in the Palencar project that you guys did a few years back. Must be the combination of clothing and the colour scheme.
http://www.tor.com/features/series/the-palencar-project
Aha! A Palencar cover!
SOOOO Looking forward to this.
Ooh, yes – that works with the readings I’ve heard. Looking forward to this!
It’s a wonderful cover. So beautiful!
Oh, look at the pretty…the depiction of the right and left hands in the art seems very fitting.