The Winged Histories
core novel 2016 A Stranger in Olondria
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.01 (949 ratings, collected 2026-09-15) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781618731142 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Winged Histories, published by Sofia Samatar in 2016, is a companion novel to A Stranger in Olondria rather than a direct sequel, set against the backdrop of a rebellion convulsing the Olondrian empire. The novel follows four women, a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a woman of high society, whose lives intersect from opposing sides of the uprising as it spreads across the land. Each draws on different resources to survive and make sense of the conflict, one through martial skill, another through knowledge, another through art, and another through the standing her birth affords her, and their separate, overlapping accounts gradually assemble a fuller picture of events only glimpsed from a distance in the first novel. Together their stories examine how history gets made, and by whom, in the middle of a war none of them fully control.
Where it sits
- Universe: A Stranger in Olondria
- Series: The Olondria Sequence core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sofia Samatar
Notes
- From the series record (The Olondria Sequence): Both novels set in the secondary-world empire of Olondria; Small Beer Press.
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 Olondria Sequence: position 2 of 2: previous A Stranger in Olondria (2013)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Stranger_in_Olondria
- https://www.sofiasamatar.com/books/the-winged-histories/
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