Roil

Name: Roil
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Trent Jamieson
ISBN: 9781455848768

Author: Trent Jamieson

Series: The Nightbound Land Series #1

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/20/2011

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Shale is dying. A vast, chaotic, monster-bearing storm known only as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land. The last humans are fighting back with ever more bizarre new machines, but the Roil seems unstoppable. Whole cities have been consumed—where once there were twelve, now only four remain.It’s up to a decadent wastrel, a four thousand year-old man, and a young woman bent on revenge, to try to save their city—and the world.

About Trent Jamieson

Trent Jamieson is an Australian Fantasy writer, and winner of two Aurealis Awards, whose Death Most Definite series is being published by Orbit and is already attracting rave notices. He works as a teacher, a bookseller and a writer and has taught at Clarion South where he was described as “the nicest guy in Australian Spec Fic” shattering the reputation he was trying to build as the “Hard Man of the Australian Writing Community”. Trent’s latest creation takes us to a dying land of decaying clockwork technology that is being devoured by a great rift in reality, the Roil.

Reviews

Goodreads review by kwesi 章英狮

Today's weather was different because of the heavy rain last couple of weeks. It was hot and I need something to enjoy in a hot day and I thought reading science fiction or something related to desert might help me fulfill my day. Unfortunately, I end up eating in the nearby fast food while cursing......more

Goodreads review by Ranting

[URL not allowed]-the... Roil is the impressive first installment in The Nightbound Land duology by Trent Jamieson, up-and-coming Australian author of the urban fantasy trilogy Death Works. Jamieson’s newest novel showcases a powerful imaginative streak, creating a darkly fascinating......more

Goodreads review by Jason

4.5 Stars Roil by Trent Jamieson is a superb science fiction and steampunk novel that comes close to perfect marks from me. This book is made special by the world cheap by Jamieson. It is a character in itself. The world is slowly being overtaken and swallowed whole by the Roil. The Roil is itself an......more