Updraft
core novel 2015 Bone Universe
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.58 (3,353 ratings, collected 2026-09-15) |
| Page count | 352 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765377838 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Updraft, published by Fran Wilde in 2015, opens the Bone Universe trilogy in a city built from towers of living bone that rise high above the clouds, its citizens navigating between them on hand-built wings rather than any ground-level roads. Kirit Densira is an ambitious young woman hoping to follow her mother into the respected trade of the city's traders, a path that requires her to pass a series of formal tests before she can begin flying trade routes of her own. Before she can complete them, Kirit breaks one of the city's rules during a test flight, drawing the attention of the Singers, a secretive order that claims to protect the city. Rather than punishing Kirit, the Singers take an unusual interest in a rare ability she displays, pressuring her to abandon her trading ambitions and join their ranks instead.
Where it sits
- Universe: Bone Universe
- Series: The Bone Universe core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Fran Wilde
Awards (verified)
- Andre Norton Award (Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy), 2015: won; SFWA's own site labels this the 2015 award year (eligibility year); Updraft was also a Nebula Award for Best Novel nominee in the same award year.
Notes
- From the series record (The Bone Universe): A complete trilogy set in a sky-city of towers grown from living bone, where citizens fly on artificial wings; a coming-of-age story that widens into political and ecological upheaval across the 3 books. Fran Wilde's separate 'Gem Universe' (The Jewel and Her Lapidary and its sequels) is a distinct, unrelated setting by the same author and is not covered by this admission.
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 Universe: position 1 of 3: next Cloudbound (2016)
Sources
- SFWA Nebula Awards: Fran Wilde (Andre Norton Award)
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Updraft
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