A Star Shall Fall
core novel 2010 The Onyx Court
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (490 ratings, collected 2026-10-04) |
| Page count | 491 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765325365 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
It is the eighteenth century, and the Royal Society of London is home to the greatest minds of England, revolutionising the understanding of the natural world with Newton's mechanics and Halley's astronomy. Beneath the city, the Onyx Court has a problem that those minds might solve: the dragon it defeated in the Great Fire was not destroyed but banished, imprisoned on the comet that Halley has predicted will return in 1759, and when it does, the dragon will come back with it, to a London that has grown far beyond the faerie hall's power to protect. With the comet's return only a few years away, Queen Lune and her mortal Prince set out to find a way to destroy or contain it, which means drawing the fae into the new world of scientific experiment, and drawing some of its natural philosophers into theirs.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Onyx Court
- Series: The Onyx Court core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Marie Brennan
Notes
- From the series record (The Onyx Court): Marie Brennan's historical fantasy of the faerie court hidden beneath London, the Onyx Hall, across three centuries of English history: Elizabeth I's reign, the Civil War and Great Fire, the Royal Society's eighteenth century, and Victorian London's Underground and Goblin Market.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Onyx Court: position 3 of 4: previous In Ashes Lie (2009) · next With Fate Conspire (2011)
Sources
← The Onyx Court dossier · All universes
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