The Bone Season
First edition hardcover
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| Author | Samantha Shannon |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Dystopian |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury (UK, USA) |
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Published in English
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20 August 2013 |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 480 pages |
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| OCLC | 814301490 |
| LC Class | PR6119.H365B66 2013 |
| Followed by | The Mime Order |
The Bone Season is a supernatural dystopian novel by British writer Samantha Shannon and is her debut novel. The novel was published on 20 August 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing and is the first of a seven book series. Film rights to Bone Season have been sold to Andy Serkis's Imaginarium Studios.The Bone Season was also named the first book in NBC's Today show's monthly book club.
Of the novel, Shannon stated that she wondered what would happen if "dystopia dealt with the supernatural" and if there were a second Salem Witch Trials.
The Bone Season is set in 2059 and follows nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney. Paige is a clairvoyant called a dreamwalker, capable of moving in and out of the minds of other people. She is later attacked and kidnapped, then taken to Oxford, which has been kept secret for two hundred years. It's there that she meets the Rephaite Warden and is drawn to him despite being frightened by him.
Shannon began writing The Bone Season while working for book agent David Godwin and attending St Anne's College, Oxford. She had started working for Godwin when he offered her an internship after he declined her earlier novel Aurora. After some time looking over manuscripts and gaining experience in the book business, Shannon came up with the premise for The Bone Season. Shannon imagined "a girl, having the exact same day at work that I was, but she happened to be clairvoyant" and began planning the novel while on her lunch break. She began using the environment of St Anne's College and the overall University of Oxford architecture and landscaping as an inspiration for the novel's Sheol I penal colony setting. An interviewer noted that Oxford has many "impossibly neat, manicured lawns and well-tended buildings that act as a kind of tree-ring-dating window onto Britain's architectural past (and present)." Shannon came up with the idea of a shanty town in between the colleges as a way of "juxtaposing the squalor the humans were forced to live in and the grand colleges where The Rephaim live on either side."
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