Snow City
#6873.41 adjusted 3.92 for sample size in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 1 book Status Complete 2017 Reading commitment Low G. A. Kathryns Last reviewed 2026-11-01
Overview
Snow City is a fantasy novel published in February 2017 by G. A. Kathryns, a pseudonym of Gael Baudino, as a CreateSpace paperback and a Sycamore Sky Books eBook. A musician named Echo Japonica creates a city in her imagination to escape a collapsing world and then finds herself living in it. A girl who has returned from death and a gangster who loves Bach pull her past back into the city. The novel is a standalone with no sequel listed.
Portal fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (1 work) counts toward ranking
Snow City G. A. Kathryns
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Snow City; Published under the pseudonym G. A. Kathryns; the author also writes as Gael Baudino. | 2017 | 1 | core | 3.41 (37 ratings) |
A standalone fantasy novel in which a musician steps into the dream city she imagined.
Quick answers
- How many books are in Snow City? Snow City's Core Canon is 1 book.
- Is Snow City finished? Complete (2017).
- How much reading does Snow City take? Low reading commitment (estimated from 1 Core Canon book).
- How is Snow City ranked? #687 in this site's official ranking, based on 37 reader ratings across 1 Core Canon book. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #687?
Ranked #687 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 3.41 across 1 core book.
- A smaller readership (37 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- 0.51 behind #686, The Keeper's Chronicles.
- Below the top-10 average of 4.46.
Why explore this universe?
Modestly rated · 1 book · Complete · 37 ratings · Ranks #687 overall
Good choice if you want a quick, low-commitment portal fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
A single Core Canon work: no sequencing question to resolve.
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 3.41 across 37 ratings on 1 Core Canon book. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Canon Extension: 27 universes; 5 candidates ruled out; older open items closed accepted 2026-11-01
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- FictionDB Tier 2
- The Library Ladies Tier 2
- Wikipedia: Gael Baudino Tier 2
Last reviewed: 2026-11-01
Rule: Core Canon = Snow City (2017).