As one can imagine, this situation is tense and ripe for conflict. The city tries to hang on for a while, but the middle classes eventually empty out, leaving behind only the incarcerated, those too poor to leave, and the extremely wealthy, who refuse to abandon their land holdings.

About 50 years before the book begins, the dragons came out of the sea and began to circle the skies.never stopping, never resting, never eating, just breathing flame. It's never explicitly stated whether it's an alternate world or set far in the future, but the echoes of our own world are strong. Of all the horrifying things that could come up from the seas, it's two dragons that have arisen to menace the skies of what was once something like New York City in Chandler Klang Smith's The Sky Is Yours. Some of the weirdest life forms that exist are the ones that live near the bottom, and we don't even really know what all of them are! New discoveries of very unpleasant-looking things are constantly being made! It's half exciting, half kind of one of those things where you wonder if we should be disturbing things that have clearly evolved to be perfectly happy without us, thanks. We've pretty much seen all the land parts, but our oceans are vast and deep and we've experienced only a tiny fraction of them. Perhaps the room brings back memories because of its scent, loam and toffee mixed together-which in fact smells nothing like Swanny's home, but which is the scent of nostalgia itself: sweetness shot through with corrupting experience.'Īs hard as it seems to be to believe, there is still unexplored territory in our world.

The sky is yours chandler klang smith