The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed
The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed
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The Siege of Burning Grass

Author: Premee Mohamed

Narrator: Richard Trinder

Unabridged: 12 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/27/2024


Synopsis

The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war.

Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom.

Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?

About Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an assistant editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels, as well as several novellas, and her short fiction has appeared in many venues.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justine on March 27, 2024

A meditation on war, the duality of violence and non-violent resistance, and the deep commonality of all people. There was some weirdness at the end of the story and a minor thread I seemed to have lost track of at some point, but generally this was excellent. There is a quiet emotional depth infused......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on July 14, 2024

This is a secondary-world fantasy (as defined by the author) novel that tries to answer whether pacifism can survive a war. I read it as a part of the monthly reading for July 2024 at SFF Hot from Printers: New Releases group. This is my first book by the writer, a Nebula award-winning Indo-Caribbe......more

Goodreads review by Janelle on March 22, 2024

Alefret is a prisoner of his own country, a pacifist in a time of war, a victim of his own country’s bombs and torturers. Reluctantly he agrees to infiltrate the enemy’s last remaining floating city with one of his guards/torturers, to try and persuade them to surrender or call for a ceasefire. Ther......more

Goodreads review by Me, My Shelf, & I on March 29, 2024

"It's that 'fair' is a meaningless word if someone really wants to hurt you. There are no equal fights. Even if there were, you cannot tell by looking. So don't fight." What are the consequences of refusal? What are the consequences of complicity? I absolutely adore what Premee has to say and how......more

Goodreads review by Zana on March 18, 2024

"Bombing children. Bombing children as if to say, See what you have made us do. Fight without honour because you fought without honour. Forced our hands." 4.5 stars rounded up. I swear, the more Premee Mohamed I read, the more I fall in love with her unique style of storytelling and writing. Similar w......more