The city is crumbling... Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred years. Gods have deserted their temples. In the last days of a dying city, the decadent chatelaine chooses a forbidden lover, separating twin outcasts and setting them on independent trajectories that might finally bring down the palace. Then, screaming from the skies, a lone god reappears, briefly, and a limbless prophet is carried through South Gate, into Nowy Solum, with a message for all: beyond the city, something ancient and monumental has come awake!
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An extremely strong follow-up to FILARIA and another winner for ChiZine
April 7 2013
By Zachary Jernigan
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Format:Paperback
I'll be honest out front: this one's a tough nut to describe. It's dark fantasy melded so strangely and fluidly with science fiction that finding a familiar comparison is nearly impossible.
Therein lies the appeal, I think. Like Hayward's debut, Filaria, this is ground-breakingly odd fiction that challenges the intellect and distills images in the mind's eye so indelibly that it's nearly a shock to enter the waking world again.
Therein lies the appeal, I think. Like Hayward's debut, Filaria, this is ground-breakingly odd fiction that challenges the intellect and distills images in the mind's eye so indelibly that it's nearly a shock to enter the waking world again.
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melencholy SF/F mix
April 3 2013
By Wendy S. Delmater
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
For those of you who like their very fantasy dark, yet filled with beautiful writing, I give you The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter. A book whose world is like a door -
"Forever ajar, hinges crusted with buboes of rust, wood gone soft and black and pulpy, the door was a swollen affair. Dank vegetation from inside the cell spilled out through the narrow opening and, in many places, through the rotten wood itself, to die there, in the unlit corridor."
It's full of the sort of moody melancholy that accompanies stories of moral rot and dessication, where despair is echoed by a sky that never clears and a sun that is a fable, never seen. The untouchable kholics and the red-blooded hemes of the city of Nowy Solum, and their the old gods-actually human-derived starship brains driven mad by the transition to metal bodies-are about to clash and change the world. This is a science fiction tale told mostly as fable. Once a high tech world falls, what is tech? If any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then perhaps the fall of such a civilization's ashes can be told as a fable of gods, fading into legends that the human heart often falls for.
The entire book is a fever dream of a corrupt society on the very brink of a needed collapse that never quite comes. The "gods" come instead, fight their petty wars, and leave things more broken than they found them. Except...now there is a break in the clouds, clouds that were a byproduct of of their madness.
"Forever ajar, hinges crusted with buboes of rust, wood gone soft and black and pulpy, the door was a swollen affair. Dank vegetation from inside the cell spilled out through the narrow opening and, in many places, through the rotten wood itself, to die there, in the unlit corridor."
It's full of the sort of moody melancholy that accompanies stories of moral rot and dessication, where despair is echoed by a sky that never clears and a sun that is a fable, never seen. The untouchable kholics and the red-blooded hemes of the city of Nowy Solum, and their the old gods-actually human-derived starship brains driven mad by the transition to metal bodies-are about to clash and change the world. This is a science fiction tale told mostly as fable. Once a high tech world falls, what is tech? If any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then perhaps the fall of such a civilization's ashes can be told as a fable of gods, fading into legends that the human heart often falls for.
The entire book is a fever dream of a corrupt society on the very brink of a needed collapse that never quite comes. The "gods" come instead, fight their petty wars, and leave things more broken than they found them. Except...now there is a break in the clouds, clouds that were a byproduct of of their madness.
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Not that I had any doubt...
Jun 28 2011
By violet
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Most everything published by ChiZine is excellent, and Brent Hayward is such an original voice. Definitely worth the time, money and effort. I'm sold on the author and the publishing house. I will be waiting for Hayward's next venture.
If you haven't already, check out his previous tome, Filaria. Wonderful, interesting, well-written material. It stays with you, which is what one wants in a novel.
If you haven't already, check out his previous tome, Filaria. Wonderful, interesting, well-written material. It stays with you, which is what one wants in a novel.
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