{"id":18763,"date":"2013-05-20T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=18763"},"modified":"2013-05-18T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T10:53:20","slug":"under-the-empyrean-sky-the-final-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/05\/20\/under-the-empyrean-sky-the-final-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Under The Empyrean Sky: The Final Cover!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UNDER THE EMPYREAN SKY<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Final cover!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preorder: Amazon<\/span><\/a> \/ B&N<\/span><\/a> \/ Indiebound<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has had enough of it. It\u2019s the only crop the Empyrean government allows the people of the Heartland to grow\u2014and the genetically modified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heartlanders have just to control it. As captain of the Big Sky Scavengers, Cael and his crew sail their rickety ship over the corn day after day, scavenging for valuables. But Cael\u2019s tired of surviving life on the ground while the Empyrean elite drift by above in their extravagant sky flotillas. He\u2019s sick of the mayor\u2019s son besting Cael\u2019s crew in the scavenging game. And he\u2019s worried about losing Gwennie\u2014his first mate and the love of his life\u2014forever when their government-chosen spouses are revealed. But most of all, Cael is angry\u2014angry that their lot in life will never get better and that his father doesn\u2019t seem upset about any of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the Empyrean Sky<\/em> is an imaginative, page-turning adventure that will delight science-fiction fans and have them impatiently waiting for the next installment.\u201d \u2013 Joelle Charbonneau, author of The Testing<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA lunatic, gene-spliced, biofueled thriller, Wendig\u2019s story flies faster and slicker than his teen crews\u2019 hover racers. Fear the corn.\u201d \u2013 Tom Pollock, author of The City\u2019s Son<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the Empyrean Sky <\/em>\u00a0is like a super-charged, genetically-modified hybrid of The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> and Star Wars<\/em>. Wendig delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a future agri-dystopia. Fascinating world-building, engaging and deep characters, smooth, electric prose.\u201d \u2013 John Hornor Jacobs, author of The Twelve-Fingered Boy<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNDER THE EMPYREAN SKY Final cover! Preorder: Amazon \/ B&N \/ Indiebound Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has had enough of it. It\u2019s the only crop the Empyrean government allows the people of the Heartland to grow\u2014and the genetically modified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heartlanders have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4SD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19055,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions\/19055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}