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The Promise Of The Child
Thomas Toner
Night Shade
October 2015
On Sale: September 22, 2015
460 pages
ISBN: 1597808458
EAN: 9781597808453
Hardcover
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Science Fiction Space Opera
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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