{"id":536,"date":"2014-07-21T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?page_id=536"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:44:55","slug":"cloudgazer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?page_id=536","title":{"rendered":"Cloudgazer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cloudgazer<\/strong> is my first novel, a science fiction adventure set in the world of Azimuth. It&#8217;s available from Amazon as an ebook right now! You can get it here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cloudgazer (Azimuth Series)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"584\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.co.uk\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_1iGU6afCTsgvK4&#038;asin=1798765349&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"en-GB\">Azimuth. A world of floating cities &amp; bottomless sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trouble is brewing in the Nezzu Strait. Brazak West and Ganzabar, old adversaries from the last war, are at each other\u2019s throats. Stalking the skies between them is a seven-hundred-year-old warship, vastly more advanced than anything flying today, from a forgotten country that was once the centre of the world. Its mission: to recover a stolen prize with the potential to unleash disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- You don\u2019t need to cut anything, but if you did, this could go. You only need to set the framework with this paragraph (cloud cities, war brewing). So this bit is optional. --><!-- Decided to keep, to try and contextualise how the Akron is relevant, just changed the flow a bit. --><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Kiy Tanthar is just another vagrant scraping a living in Brazak West. At least, he would be were it not for the unusual grappling hook device he carries, known as a \u2018sling\u2019\u2014an ancient wonder from the technological zenith of the Gold Age, allowing its users to go where no-one else can, swinging between ships and buildings<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- Optional. The sling is really cool, it\u2019s a selling point, and that\u2019s why you put it in the blurb. But the browsing reader doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s cool, so it won\u2019t sell. So maybe you could sell its coolness by saying it allows him to soar from one flying ship to the next, dangling daringly above the heavens. --><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">. Those that use them\u2014from juvenile thieves to pirates and hired guns\u2014typically have little in common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">But all are known as <\/span><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">cloudgazers<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Get the book on kindle using the link above; alternately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/gb\/en\/ebook\/cloudgazer\">you can grab it on Kobo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also find out more about Azimuth at the<a title=\"Crystal Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/crystal_archives\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\"> Crystal Archives wiki<\/a>, my own resource for worldbuilding (beware some spoilers!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudgazer is my first novel, a science fiction adventure set in the world of Azimuth. It&#8217;s available from Amazon as an ebook right now! You can get it here: Azimuth. 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