Tides of the Titans: A Titan's Forest Novel

by Thoraiya Dyer

Overview

In the quest fantasy Tides of the Titans, part of Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning author Thoraiya Dyer's extraordinary Titan's Forest series, trees loom large as skyscrapers, mortals can be reborn as gods, and a young man travels to the far reaches of the land and beyond to unlock the Forest's hidden secrets...

Courtier, explorer, thief: Leaper is a man of many skills, but none of his talents satisfy the yearning in his heart for the Queen of Airakland, the ruler of a thunder-clashed kingdom.

Their affair is cut too short, however, when she is murdered. But who was the assassin? A political rival? The jealous king? Or, perhaps, the god of thunder who oversees them all?

Distraught, Leaper vows revenge, but little does he realize that his mission will lead him away from his forest home, across the vast floodplains, and to the edges of time and myth itself.

Praise for Crossroads of Canopy

“I am majorly impressed. A unique, gorgeous, and dangerous world!”—Tamora Pierce

“Everything you expect from a great epic–quests, fearless warriors, gods born again.”—Brian Staveley, author of The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne

Titan's Forest

#1 Crossroads of Canopy

#2 Echoes of Understorey

#3 Tides of the Titans

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765385987
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/29/2019
Series:	Titan's Forest , #3
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

THORAIYA DYER is a four-time Aurealis Award-winning, four-time Ditmar Award-winning Australian writer based in Sydney. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Analog, Redstone SF, Nature and Cosmosmagazines, and anthologies, including War Stories, Long Hidden, and Cranky Ladies of History. Tides of the Titans is part of the Titan's Forest series, which began with Crossroads of Canopy.

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2019

Dyer’s triumphant conclusion to the Titan’s Forest trilogy (after Echoes of Understorey) brings murder, prophesy, and redemption to her vibrant world of magic, colossal trees, and disparate human settlements. Leaper is a servant to Airak, the merciless god of lightning, in the Canopy community of the titan trees. Leaper is also having an affair with Queen Ilik, but before he can ask her to elope with him, she is murdered, with only the bloody remnants of her lustrous hair left behind. Setting out to find her killer, Leaper travels down the mighty trees to the Floor and out into the mysterious plains and mountains. He encounters the deceptive Floorians, the devious Crocodile-Riders, and the last of the Winged, a demon of destruction. Along the way, Leaper learns harsh truths about the origin of the gigantic lizardlike Old Gods and the Titan’s Forest, and pledges to free the people of Canopy from the tyranny of the new gods. Loyal readers will rejoice at the reunion of characters from the other books and delight in Dyer’s rich mythology, and anyone can appreciate the sympathetic, vivid characters as they navigate their elaborate world of mercurial gods, magical abilities, and determination to be free. Agent: Evan Gregory, Ethan Ellenberg Literary. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Dyer’s most accomplished book, and it is both quenching and tantalizing, leaving the reader satisfied with the experience and enthusiastic about the next installment. Extremely absorbing.”—Locus

Praise for the Titan's Forest series

“Readers will be delighted by Dyer’s polished prose and an exquisite new world of intricate mythology, rituals, and politics.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“I am majorly impressed with Thoraiya Dyer's Crossroads of Canopy. A unique, gorgeous, and dangerous world, a stubborn female hero, and a writer to watch!”—Tamora Pierce

“A glorious botanical quest fantasy. Crossroads of Canopy is everything I hoped for of a Thoraiya Dyer novel — vivid worldbuilding, complex characters and an evil sense of humour. It’s rare to find an epic fantasy that’s so radically different to anything else out there, so treasure this book, grubs and all.” —Hugo and Ditmar Award-winning author Tansy Rayner Roberts

“For her striking first novel Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer reworks the stuff of epic fantasy in ways that seem organic, rooted in the natural world but just as true to human experience.” —Locus magazine

“Recommended for readers who appreciate nuanced world building, as both Canopy and Understorey are strange, fleshed-out lands thrown into turmoil.”—Booklist

"Crossroads of Canopy has everything you expect from a great epic—quests, fearless warriors, gods born again—but all is transmuted, through the rich and vivid original setting, into something entirely new." —Brian Staveley, author of The Last Mortal Bond

“Dyer presents a rich, brutal, fascinating world and an unforgettable heroine.” —Ilana C. Myer, author of Last Song Before Night

“A remarkable debut. What a delight to read a fantasy so different from the mainstream and so beautifully realised.” —Juliet Marillier, winner of the Aurealis Award and the Alex Award

“A stunningly original debut fantasy set in a lush and deadly treetop realm, amidst the kingdoms of thirteen relentlessly reincarnated gods, where disobedience is punished by a draining of magic and nobody lives who falls.” —Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue

“Imaginative, original, inclusive – and fast-paced and exciting. Go get it and read it. Maybe twice.” —Pamela Freeman, author of The Castings Trilogy

"Dyer's writing seamlessly melds a lush and layered canopy setting and a complex magical culture to form a unique fantasy world, filled with memorable characters in constant jeopardy. Unar, a girl on the brink of womanhood, is at the heart of the tale. Feisty, opinionated, certain of her own destiny, she's a tough flawed heroine, one readers will not easily forget." —Glenda Larke, author of The Stormlord Trilogy and The Forsaken Lands Trilogy

"Dyer is a writer of immense talent. Her powerful, distinctive voice makes Crossroads of Canopy a fully immersive read, so well-written and believable it will have you checking to see if the realms of Canopy, Understorey and Floor really exist." —Kaaron Warren, author of Walking the Tree

“Thoraiya Dyer has woven a world of gods and magic, a merciless forest where the slightest misstep can send the unwary, the unworthy, or the simply unfortunate plunging to an unremarked doom. Guiding us through the heights of this remarkable place is a young woman, Unar. Scrappy, complex and surprisingly compassionate, she must fight to establish a place for herself among the trees. If Crossroads of Canopy explores the cost of caring, it also examines the even higher price of indifference. It is a riveting novel.” —A.M. Dellamonica, author of A Daughter of No Nation

"A wonderful, magical, poetic, tragic novel...a major achievement." —Jenny Blackford, World Fantasy Award judge, author of The Priestess and the Slave

"The book is quite marvelous. Tons of cultural richness. Complex and casually cruel...Thoraiya Dyer is the writer I most want to infect people with." —Anna Tambour, World Fantasy Award-shortlisted author of Crandolin

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