The Bone Shard Daughter
core novel 2020 The Drowning Empire
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (38,188 ratings, collected 2026-08-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316541428 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Drowning Empire
- Series: The Bone Shard Trilogy core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Andrea Stewart
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best First Novel), 2021: finalist; 4th place per the no-cutoff Locus-poll convention (winner: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger). Confirmed via sfadb.com (the accepted primary source for Locus lineage claims).
Notes
- From the series record (The Bone Shard Trilogy): A completed trilogy set in a flooded island empire ruled by an emperor who animates bone-shard constructs; the first novel in a new author's debut series for this canon.
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 Bone Shard Trilogy: position 1 of 3: next The Bone Shard Emperor (2021)
Sources
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