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In
a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own,
the Entire gathers both human and alien beings under
a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders,
the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls
and a never-ending river. Over all, the elegant
and cruel Tarig rule supreme.
Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former
star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter
who are assumed dead by everyone earth except Quinn.
Believing them trapped in a parallel universe—one
where he himself may have been imprisoned—he
returns to the Entire to free them. Thus begins
a tale of high adventure and vast concept, replete
with alien cultures, an exotic Mandarin bureaucracy,
and a man with nothing left to lose. He may not
find what he seeks, but he’ll be offered a
view of the multiverse, the power of princes, an
unthinkable revenge—and unexpectedly, love.
In this, her first series, Kay Kenyon has created
high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose
Farmer’s Riverworld, Roger Zelazny’s
Amber Chronicles, and Dan Simmons’s
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In
this sequel to Bright of the Sky, Titus
Quinn returns to the Entire with a new task: to
enter and destroy the impregnable fortress of
Ahnenhoon. The fortress, called the Repel, is
replete with eons-long Tarig secrets and a most
disturbing personal one for Quinn: a special prisoner
resides there and will perish with the Repel.
To reach Ahnenhoon, Quinn journeys across the
Entire and down the River Nigh in the company
of a subversive godwoman, a renegade Tarig Lord,
a mad navitar, and Anzi, a woman of the Chalin
people, who guides him with her wit and a deepening
love.
He is pursued by an assassin sent by his own daughter,
Sydney, who now counts the Entire as her home.
Formerly a slave, she now has at her command a
transforming and revolutionary power. Not only
that, but Sydney has a strange ally, a person
from earth who has her own plans for the Entire,
enabled by a powerful machine sapient.
Weighing into this dance of power are: A Tarig
queen who once loved Quinn, the alien Paion, and
a Hirrin servant of the Magisterium whose growing
disaffection can bring down the whole house of
cards.
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