Purlieu

A WORLD APART -- It was an ordinary life for a young boy: living alone with his parents in a vast, beautiful, but empty world, reading fairy tales about another world where huge numbers of people fought and loved under a capricious moon. August was taught from an early age that things would someday change, and he would have to leave home on a great adventure. But August’s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day of the Pajama Wind, when he stepped out of his bedroom window and found that he wasn’t bound by gravity and could soar among the clouds. Little did he know that the strange, crimson lights that surrounded him as he flew possessed devastating power that can help him on his quest -- or destroy whole worlds. And then one day his parents are gone, and he must journey into unbelievable danger to find them again, a quest across half a world, without the slightest clue about why. Thrown into the heart of an insoluble mystery, August will find the shattering truth of his own---and Purlieu’s—extraordinary destiny. 

“Original, intelligent and challenging. Michael Capobianco has written an unpredictable, unconventional tale certain to linger in the reader's mind.” --Paula Volsky, author of Illusion

Michael Capobianco is co-author, with William Barton, of the controversial hardcore sf books Iris (Doubleday, Bantam, reprinted by Avon Eos), Alpha Centauri (Avon), Fellow Traveler (Bantam), and White Light (Avon Eos), as well as short fiction and articles on planetology and the exploration of the solar system. He has published one solo science fiction novel, Burster (Bantam). Purlieu is his first venture into young adult territory. Capobianco served as President of SFWA from 1996-1998 and again in 2007-2008, and was drafted to fill the office of SFWA Vice President in 2010. He currently serves as SFWA’s Authors Coalition Liaison, Advisor to the Board of Directors, and is a member of SFWA’s Contracts and Legal Affairs Committees. Capobianco lives in Southern Maryland with two cats, Ariel and Mocha.

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