Stone and Sky is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards

Graham Edwards (writer)

Graham Edwards is an English author of fantasy and crime novels. His most popular books have generally featured dragons as their central characters....

. The novel was first published in 1999 by Voyager Books (UK) and HarperPrism (US). It is the first book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sea

Stone and Sea

Stone and Sea is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 2000 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the second book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sky and Stone and Sun...

 and Stone and Sun

Stone and Sun

Stone and Sun is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 2001 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the third book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sky and Stone and Sea...

. The trilogy is a follow-up to Edwards' Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy, and is loosely connected via various plot threads.

Plot summary

The book, as well as its sequels, follows the adventures of British historian and naturalist Jonah Lightfoot, who is caught in the eruption of Krakatoa

Krakatoa

Krakatoa is a volcanic island made of a'a lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island , and the volcano as a whole. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately 40,000 people, although some estimates...

 in 1883. The blast transports him and American runaway Annie West into a vertical world consisting of a seemingly infinite wall

Wall

A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air...

 populated by crumbling civilisations, weird creatures, and sentient dragon

Dragon

A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...

s. No one knows where the wall begins or ends, and no one dares to climb to its top or fall to its base.

This world is called Amara

Amara (Stone trilogy)

Amara, also known as Stone, is the fictional world in British fantasy author Graham Edwards' Stone trilogy. To the series' protagonists Jonah Lightfoot and Annie West, Amara first seems to be a giant, never-ending stone wall, stretching on into the imperceptible distance in all directions. The wall...

, and it is a place deeply entwined with our own world. Throughout the books Jonah and his companions traverse the world and uncover its many mysteries. The true nature of Amara

Amara (Stone trilogy)

Amara, also known as Stone, is the fictional world in British fantasy author Graham Edwards' Stone trilogy. To the series' protagonists Jonah Lightfoot and Annie West, Amara first seems to be a giant, never-ending stone wall, stretching on into the imperceptible distance in all directions. The wall...

 is fully revealed in the second book of the trilogy, Stone and Sea

Stone and Sea

Stone and Sea is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 2000 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the second book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sky and Stone and Sun...

.

List of major characters

• Jonah Lightfoot - A British
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   historian and naturalist from the Victorian era
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  , and a follower of Charles Darwin
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  Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
  
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• Annie West - An American
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   painter from Jonah's time, escaping from an abusive husband when she meets Jonah near Java.
• Archan - The immortal, evil dragon, first seen in Dragonstorm
  Dragonstorm
  Dragonstorm is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1996 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the second book in the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy...
  
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• Ocher - One of the Deathless, once an immortal basilisk
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• Gerent - A pre-homo-sapiens human, born on Amara.
• Malya - A pre-homo-sapiens human, born on Amara.
• Kythe - A dragon, born on Amara.
• Esh - A strange sentient bug-like creature whose task it is to rebuild decaying parts of Amara.
• Frey - A witch doctor seeking to own magical powers, born on Amara.
• Torus - A dragon of Amara, tortured to insanity by Frey in his search for magic's essence.
• Rance West - Annie's husband, a violent farm-owner.

External links

• Official author's website
• Loving Dragoncharm (fansite)
• Excerpt from Stone and Sky (PDF format)