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The Bone Season Samantha Shannon Bloomsbury Purple Trade PB Fantasy USA Sci-Fi. Genre/Topics: Dystopian fantasy and science fiction combining paranormal gifts, authoritarian politics, urban underworld intrigue, and revolutionary resistance, suitable for both young adult and adult fantasy readers. Brand/Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (New York, United States), issuing this contemporary fantasy novel for a general and young adult readership. Title: The Bone Season; Author: Samantha Shannon; book one of the Bone Season sequence, marketed as a New York Times bestseller. Format: English-language trade paperback with purple and red wraps featuring a central symbolic emblem and cream interior pages, designed as a sizable, comfortable reading copy. Back-cover overview: set in the year 2059 in the criminal underworld of Scion London, the story follows Paige Mahoney, a rare clairvoyant dreamwalker whose very existence is treason and who becomes entangled with an even more powerful regime that has its own designs on her abilities. Genre/Topics: Dystopian fantasy and science fiction combining paranormal gifts, authoritarian politics, urban underworld intrigue, and revolutionary resistance, suitable for both young adult and adult fantasy readers. Language and audience: Original text in English, narrative fiction intended for fans of imaginative, character-driven speculative fiction and crossover YA/Adult series. Identifiers and pricing: Copyright page lists copyright 2013 with this paperback edition issued in 2014 by Bloomsbury USA; back cover shows ISBN: 978-1-62040-280-8 (EAN: 9781620402808) and a U.S. list price of 17.00 dollars. Series features and extras: Includes marketing blurbs from publications such as USA Today, People, Salon, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and , and contains an excerpt from the next volume in the series, The Mime Order. Additional notes: Standard trade paperback only as pictured, with no dust jacket issued and no supplemental media included.