Sandstorm

by Steve Rzasa

It's been four months since the city-state of Perch turned away the invading army of its southern rival, Trestleway, and sent the dark forces of the Cythraul packing. Thanks in no small part, everyone reckons, to Winchell Sark and his brother, Copernicus. Word reaches Winch that an old friend is in dire need. Seems he's come across a long-lost artifact deep in the Golden Desert that folk say can tear apart the veil separating this world from the one beyond the shadows. But it's not only Winch and company seeking this relic. There's a new threat gathering, one that will stop at nothing to conquer the desert sands-and unleash the Cythraul on an unsuspecting world.
Steve Rzasa is a librarian in Wyoming who fills his head with Scripture, history, graphic novels, and TV shows like Castle and Big Bang Theory, ideally in that order. Steve has had four other science fiction books published by Marcher Lord The Word Reclaimed (2009), its sequel, The Word Unleashed (2010), Broken Sight (2011), which won the 2012 Carol Award for Speculative Fiction from the American Christian Fiction Writers, and Crosswind, the prequel to Sandstorm.

443 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2013

About the author

Steve Rzasa was born and raised in South Jersey, and fell in love with books—especially science fiction novels and historical volumes—at an early age. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University’s College of Communications in 2000, and then spent seven years as a reporter and assistant editor at weekly newspapers in Maine. Steve moved to Wyoming in 2007 to become the editor of a weekly newspaper there, and now works at the local library. He and his wife Carrie have two boys and live in Buffalo, Wyoming.

Reviews

[Steve Rzasa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well... it is my book. Call it rating inflation if you like, but seriously, I wrote it, I read it, and I had a great time working on it so ... what else am I going to give it?

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the books I read by Steve Rzasa were great science fiction. In this Rzasa has been cleverly inventive in creating a strange new world that grew on me. It clearly includes Christian characters, though couched in unfamiliar names and terminology that seemed very strange at first, but I found the strange terms ended up emphasizing the truly startling nature of being Christian that we can become so complacent about.
I'd read anything by Rzasa.

[John Otte · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Sark brothers are back in a rip-roaring tale of archaeology and adventure. Winch is contacted by an old school chum who needs his help to find a powerful artifact in a distant desert kingdom. The request leads the brothers into a heart-stopping adventure in a great continuation of this steampunk series.