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First Mage on the Moon

by Cameron Johnston

A moonward mission amid a magical war

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A moonward mission amid a magical war

In a world where the moon is regarded as the gods’ forbidden home, a makeshift rocket offers a desperate possibility: reaching it to ask for an end to the war. Ella Pickering, a former skymage now working in the Unity’s magical weapons workshops, becomes involved after witnessing engineer Jackan Grissom’s experiment. The planned journey draws others into a secret venture that risks being treated as heresy. The book combines epic fantasy elements—magic, rival powers and a war-scarred landscape—with a spaceflight quest, while Ella’s experience of debt and life after a crash forms part of the story’s personal stakes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in epic fantasy set against a war between rival powers.
  • Readers who enjoy fantasy premises involving rockets, space travel and gods.
  • Readers seeking a protagonist whose story includes disability and financial hardship.

Themes

Space exploration and forbidden knowledgeWar and faithDisability and hardshipCollective risk and secrecy

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Book overview

Cameron Johnston returns in this innovative space fantasy, where wizards race to be the first on the moon - also known as the land of the gods. A fast paced read perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Ella Pickering is drowning in debt. Once a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the great war with the Ranneas Empire, following a crash she now uses a wheelchair and works gruelling shifts making magical weapons in the Unity workshops, thinking of better days.

One night Ella witnesses an experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. His device morphs into a crude rocket blasting skywards before falling into the war's spell-ravaged No Man's Land. But this inspires a dangerous dream: could such a device reach the moon - the forbidden home of the gods? Could they go and beg them to stop the war?

They will need help, but as more folk get involved in their blasphemous plot, can they keep it under wraps? Can magic get them to the moon? Or will their heresy lead them to the gallows?
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