Some antiques choose their collector.
Ian MacDonald is a young Scot who lives like a man four times his age — newspapers, tea, and antique shops — until the day he buys a mysterious globe and finds a white stone within. It transports him into a multiverse where medieval and rococo civilizations war for supremacy: a world of dragons, paladins, honour, and allegiances written in blood-ink.
Famous for its meticulous world-building — and the only novel with its own symphony.
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The globe.
Found in an antique shop whose sign reads like a warning, the globe is etched with dragons where the continents should be — and holds, at its heart, a white stone with somewhere else in mind.
A novel with its own score.
Composed by the author to shed light on the novel of the same name — the first movement alone runs to 93 tracks, with the second movement now available on all platforms. Best experienced after reading.