Through changing vibrations, Magonians can make elements appear and change, control the weather and animals, manipulate the molecules of reality itself. Many adventures happened in the first book, but essentially we learned that in Aza's home, the Magonians use their voices in magical ways. She's in love with Jason, a genius boy with obsessive thoughts like repeating the numbers of pi in his head over and over again. In the first book, we met Aza, a girl who was drowning on Earth because, though she doesn't know it, she's actually from a kingdom in the clouds. Mucho minor (and major if you haven't read the first book) spoilers, proceed with caution.Īerie is a very strange and complex, young adult fantasy. She grew up in rural Idaho on a sled-dog ranch, spent part of her 20's as a pirate negotiator and ship marketer in the maritime industry, and now lives in Brooklyn in an apartment shared with a seven-foot-long stuffed crocodile.

Laird Barron, and in Wastelands, Vol 2, among others. It's anthologized in Best American Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as the 20 editions of Rich Horton's The Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, & Paula Guran's 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, in The Year's Best Weird Volume 1, ed.

Her Nebula,Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy award-nominated short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, and in The Toast, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Subterranean Online, Glitter & Mayhem and Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead, Uncanny, Shimmer, and more. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-bestselling co-editor of the monster anthology UNNATURAL CREATURES, benefitting 826DC.

As well, she is the author of the young adult skyship novels MAGONIA and AERIE from HarperCollins, the dark fantasy/alt-history novel QUEEN OF KINGS, the internationally bestselling memoir THE YEAR OF YES, and THE END OF THE SENTENCE, a novella co-written with Kat Howard, from Subterranean. Upcoming in 2019 is a new translation of BEOWULF, also from FSG. Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of, most recently, THE MERE WIFE (out Jfrom MCD/FSG).

Magonia by maria dahvana headley