Reader Score
65%
65% of readers
recommend this book
Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novella!
Nebula Award nominee for Best Novella!
Praise for Untethered Sky
"Gripping action set in vast spaces writ as clean and spare as a dry bone . . . the result is tremendous."--The New York Times "A perfect afternoon escape under desert skies with legendary beasts."--The Wall Street Journal "Exciting, bloody, and sneakily profound."--Slate "A setting so rich, with a narrator so engaging, in fact, that readers will hope Lee returns to it in future works--perhaps always keeping the narrative as tightly bound to the novella format as a rukher is bound to her roc."--Paste "A beautiful, fierce, bittersweet flight."--Tor.com "Fonda Lee wonderfully and brutally reimagines the mythic monster hunter with one of the most iconic and compelling literary duos I've ever read." - Matt Wallace, Hugo Award winner and author of the Savage Rebellion Trilogy "A delicious morsel of heart's flesh, its story as wild and yet poised in its craft as a stooping hawk. Fonda Lee's characters are so real, broken and raw that they need no crowns, no wars, no prophesies to enlarge them. They simply, believably are, and in so being, they sweep us into a story as magical and wondrous as it is deft. One of the best fantasy novellas I've had the pleasure to read."--Christopher Buehlman "A beautifully told story of a young woman, her magnificent, monstrous raptor, and her journey through grief, obsession, courage, and love."--Kate Elliott "Fonda Lee weaves an enchanted world of giant majestic birds, those who would bond with them, and the terrifying monsters they must pursue. In this beautifully spun tale, a woman driven by loss and the pursuit of justice will be tested by the limits of her endurance, and how much she is willing to sacrifice."--P. Djèlí Clark "Lee follows up her phenomenal Green Bone Saga trilogy with this fantastic stand-alone epic fantasy novella that feels like a classic folktale....Untethered Sky is an evocative, emotional novella you'll want to finish in a single sitting because it's just that good"--BuzzFeed "Fonda Lee explores a new world via a standalone fantasy novella with a focus as razor-sharp as the talons of its deadly rocs."--Literary Hub "[A] powerful story of emotional freedom and learning to love without regret."--Library Journal "Disarmingly lovely."--Locus