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A raging fire scorches the magnificent palaces to ash and severs the path to the immortal lands across the sea.
The witch's divinations and astrological calculations, practiced for a thousand years, reach their end here.
I recorded you in the spaces between 1,764 stars, through the changing seasons, shining forever with the sun and moon.
Revenge and political intrigue, with a happy ending earned through strength.
Spanning the entire Qin dynasty, with a little of the Chu-Han contention. A companion to Ode to a Thousand Springs, an afterword to Passing the Torch, and the finale of the Stargazing series.
Told from the perspective of the Qin unifying the realm. May include astrology and fortune-telling, healing the sick and saving lives, pretending to be a mystic, political struggles, and the Qin campaign to reconquer Baiyue.
Bamboo Annals series:
Xia and Shang: Chasing the Sun, a short story about King Tang's campaign against Xia (in preparation).
Shang and Zhou: Passing the Torch, a civil servant's everyday life, the founding of the Western Zhou, and the division of witchcraft and medicine (completed, bonus chapters updating).
Spring and Autumn: Pursuing the Light, a travel guide to the Spring and Autumn period, the Zhou court's poetry-gathering and military inspection systems (in preparation).
Warring States: Ode to a Thousand Springs, a report on the development of pre-Qin medicine, a romance about stealing someone's beloved (in progress).
Yuan and Ming: Lord of Mountains and Seas, the finest compendium of ancient Chinese prescriptions and the Ming campaign to pacify Yunnan (completed).
Theme: Fate doesn't deserve to be my opponent.
