Literary · Science fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Stories set in fifteenth-century Constantinople, a present-day Idaho library and a future spaceship are linked by an ancient Greek tale of a shepherd who wants to reach a city in the clouds. Each hinges on a book.
- First published
- 2021
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like big, interwoven historical and speculative stories that celebrate libraries and reading.
Skip this if you dislike jumping between many timelines, because it takes a while for the threads to meet.
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Where to get it
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