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Chronicles of the High Inquest: Homeworld of the Heart

This new addition to the Inquestor series is as fresh as the four previous volumes were 30+ years ago. beautiful and cruel, the worlds somtow evokes vivid but evanescent, like dreams. Chronicles of the High Inquest: Homeworld of the Heart: The Fifth Novel in the Inquestor Series After forty years, S.P. Somtow has produced a fifth novel in the Chronicles of the High Inquest, one of the … [Read More...]

Chronicles of the High Inquest: The Darkling Wind

In The Darkling Wind, author S.P Somtow returns with the fourth novel in the Inquestor series, arguably topping the other novels to become the best instalment yet. As with the other books in the series, The Darkling Wind contains a brilliant and truly unique fantasy world which is sure to captivate any reader. This instalment brings some shocking revelations as well as increasing depth to the … [Read More...]

Chronicles of the High Inquest: Utopia Hunters

"the best Thai writer in the universe!" - David Copperfield. Chronicles of the High Inquest: Utopia Hunters (Inquestor Series Book 3) “His multicultural viewpoint may yet give us the best SF novel of all time” — Analog For twenty thousand years, the godlike Inquestors have held sway over the one million worlds of the Dispersal of Man. S.P. Somtow’s limitless imagination has created a … [Read More...]

Chronicles of the High Inquest: The Throne of Madness

A great series from a fantastic author, one that was not readily available as a set until recently but thankfully is now! A beautiful and richly detailed world, I can't recommend these novels enough! Chronicles of the High Inquest: The Throne of Madness (Inquestor Book 2) Kelver had been chosen by a heretic to be the chosen one who would bring down a galactic empire that had lasted twenty … [Read More...]

Chronicles of the High Inquest: Light on the Sound

In this first book of the Inquestor Series, S.P. Somtow brings to life a universe unlike any other in science fiction, with a history spanning 200 centuries and a million human-inhabited planets, and all ruled over by the omnipotent Inquestors, whose mission is to rescue humanity from the illusion of a utopian ideal. A revolution is coming - will the Inquest survive? ~~~~~~~ "the best Thai … [Read More...]

Fae Song (Ballads of Balahar)

Fae Song (Ballads of Balahar) Life and time itself might be forever changed for them both. If you root for The Bard in The Witcher, Fae Song is your next binge. Fae Song is an artistically written fantasy adventure. The characters are robust and lively, and the world of Balahar is brilliant; the reader is easily pulled into the action filled epic journey. Love, loss, and sacrifice can be … [Read More...]

Altered Carbon

From Booklist In a society in which death has been rendered practically obsolete, suicide and murder take on different significances. After a particularly brutal offing, former UN envoy Takeshi Kovacs finds himself "resleeved"--that is, his consciousness has been put in a new body--and hired as a private investigator by Laurens Bancroft, one of twenty-fifth-century society's old rich in Bay City … [Read More...]

The Three-Body Problem

"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." ―President Barack Obama on the Three-Body Problem trilogy “A breakthrough book . . . a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.” ―George R. R. Martin, on The Three Body Problem The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past Book 1) … [Read More...]

Of Blood and Bone

"Roberts continues her apocalyptic Chronicles of The One with a mesmerizing follow-up that is bold and breathtaking...meeting the next generation and watching the heroine grow into her powers and leadership is enthralling." -- Kirkus "[Of Blood and Bone] can be read on its own and will appeal to fans of fast-paced dystopian tales with a strong heroine." -- Publishers Weekly Of Blood and Bone: … [Read More...]