"Praise for The Stone in the Skull ""Elizabeth Bear sweeps the reader into a world of ravishing detail.""--Huffington Post ""Amazing worldbuilding, gloriously precise prose, and excellent pacing.""--Tor.com ""The Eternal Sky trilogy is one of the great fantasy epics of the last decade, and Bear triumphantly returns to that setting.""--Library Journal ""Glorious and dramatic.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review ""The plot hews closely to the whole band-of-rogues-assemble-to-fight-stronger-band-of-foes . . . Bear noodles around that trope like a jazz master and takes the story to some interesting places . . .""--Locus ""This is a promising beginning indeed for an epic . . . and it will no doubt be a magnificent journey.""--Booklist ""A panoramic drama that grabs and grips from Page 1 . . . vivid, absorbing, and thrilling.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""Clever and beautifully written.""--Elitist Book Reviews ""A thoughtful, richly complex, humane work eloquently told and elegantly constructed.""--Fantasy Literature ""Enchanting.""--The Illustrated Page ""A beautifully written story, truly epic in scope.""--Lynn's Book Blog Praise for the Eternal Sky trilogy ""Subtle . . . crisp.""--RT Book Reviews Top Pick for Range of Ghosts ""A vivid world."" --Publishers Weekly on Range of Ghosts ""A rousing, artful adventure.""--Asimov's Science Fiction on Shattered Pillars ""Astonishing.""--Booklist on Shattered Pillars ""Bear delivers the thematic complexity, deft worldbuilding, and compelling storytelling we've come to expect in this concluding volume of the Eternal Sky trilogy, set in a world inspired by 13th-century Asia and The Arabian Nights.""--Locus on Steles of the Sky ""Dense, gripping, and also entertaining, full of emotion, adventure, loss, and the possibility of hope.""--Tor.com on Steles of the Sky"