The promise of the child / Thomas Toner.
Momo rauemi: TextSeries: Toner, Thomas, Amaranthine Spectrum ; book 1.Whakaahuatanga: 449 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781597808453
- 1597808458
- 1473211379
- 9781473211377
- 823/.92 23
- PR6120.O47 P76 2015
- FIC028030 | FIC028000
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Science fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | TONE (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2180481 |
"Lycaste is a lovesick recluse living in a forgotten Mediterranean cove who is renowned throughout the distorted people of the Old World for his beauty. Sotiris Gianakos is a 12,000-year-old Cypriote grieving the loss of his sister, a principled man who will change Lycaste's life forever. Their stories, and others, become darkly entwined when Aaron the Longlife-the Usurper, a man who is not quite a man-makes a claim to the Amaranthine throne that threatens to throw the delicate political balance of the known galaxy into ruin. The Promise of the Child is a stunning feat of imagination set against an epic backdrop ranging from 14th-century Prague, to a lonely cove near the Mediterranean Sea, to the 147th-century Amaranthine Firmament. Toner has crafted an intelligent space opera filled with gripping action and an emotional scale that is wonderfully intimate, a smart and compelling debut that calls to mind the best of Kim Stanley Robinson or M. John Harrison"--
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