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Restoration and Atonement: Revealing Fran Wilde’s The Book of Gems

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Published on November 1, 2022

Photo credit: Bryan Derballa
Photo credit: Bryan Derballa

Some truths are too powerful to ever be shattered…

We’re thrilled to share the cover for The Book of Gems, the brilliant final installment in Fran Wilde’s Gem Universe series—available June 20, 2023 from Tordotcom Publishing.

It’s been centuries since the Jeweled Valley and its magical gems were destroyed. The Seven Kingdoms have crumbled, their memory all but dissolved into myth. In the republics that rose to replace them, scientists craft synthetic jewels to heat homes, power gadgetry, and wage war.

Dr. Devina Brunai is one of these scientists, and is perhaps the only living person who believes real gems still exist. While experimenting in a gem lab, she receives strange readings from a family heirloom rumored to be a page from the legendary Book of Gems. The recent unearthing of the Palace of Gems in the Valley presents her with the perfect opportunity to travel back to the land of her ancestors, search for the Book, and prove her naysayers wrong.

Her chance is snatched away at the last moment when her mentor steals her research and wins the trip for himself, his arrogant communications from the field only deepening the scar of his betrayal. That is, until his messages transform into bizarre ramblings about the Book, a Prince, and an enemy borne of the dark…before ceasing altogether. Now Dev must enter the Valley, find her mentor, and save her research, before they too become relics of a time long forgotten.

Other books in the Gem Universe:
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
The Fire Opal Mechanism

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The Book of Gems

The Book of Gems

Cover art by Tommy Arnold; Design Christine Foltzer

Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, three Hugo Awards, two Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny, and Jonathan Strahan’s 2020 Year’s Best SFF.

Fran directs the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University and writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Tor.com. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.

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