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Synopsis
A far-future adventure that has been compared to the classics Dune and Norstrilia, Lantern Road is the tender, shocking love story of a human slave and the beautiful alien, aristocratic daughter of his owner on a remote planet famous for exporting fungal herbs, perfumes, and glowing magic across the galaxy. Jory O'Call, son of an executed rebel on Oba (which resembles feudal Japan), is a poet and pet at the court of fearsome Lord Ramyon. He was given to young Lady Ramy as a gift when both were small. They formed a bond of friendship that deepened into forbidden love. The Shurians are a human-like race, with women so fair-skinned they seem almost pearly-translucent. They have beautiful eyes, magnificent orbs of russet-autumn hair, and slender bodies. Jory, by contrast, is a rough-hewn, darker-skinned, handsome man who is well-versed in both the courtly arts of poetry and flower arrangement, but just as well in the arts of armed and open-handed combat. Far in the future, Earth is considered little more than a long-ago legend. Humankind is despised and hunted across the galaxy by its former alien slave races. It is part of a vast, panoramic future history told by John T. Cullen in many SF novels and short stories. When Jory and Ramy are caught in mid-passion, an outraged Lord Ramyon bites his own tongue off in grief and rage. He loves his daughter, but considers her defiled. Shurian custom decrees that Ramy and her nightmarish wasp-sister, Ramy-Baba, must commit suicide together using the ritual nursery-rhyme knives dedicated to the birth and mutual deaths of lovers. There is no escape for Ramy and Ramy-Baba, who die in a moonlit, laquered palace, first the lovely Ramy at the hand of her mother-sister, the sacred Baba. Then the Baba, crying over the body of her love, commits duello so that their blood mingles in the rose gardens of Lord Ramyon. Jory O'Call, the velvet thief and lover, escapes by the skin of his teeth. Hunted by Ramyon's soldiers and police, Jory travels by dark, on the astounding Obayyo, the Lantern Road, a highway of lanterns and starlight in the eternal night that shrouds fragrant Oba with its fungal-rich plantations and gardens. Jory makes his way to Kusi-O, the planet's only starport, which is surrounded by a giant drum wall. No foreigner may enter feudal Oba from behind that wall, nor may any Oban enter the star port and live to tell about it. In the Kusi-O, Jory becomes caught up in a galactic conspiracy that takes him to the limits of the universe--and his own identity as a human. Humankind are hunted everywhere, but their traders, aided by a mysterious race of star runners known as Ruandap, ply the star lanes under alien flags and hidden papers. Kusi-O is policed by Fril cops, from a neighboring race in the same solar system. A tragic Fril couple take Jory in, which propels him on a series of hair-raising misadventures ultimately leading him aboard a Ruandap trader and out into deep space. Jory discovers his unique talent as an astrophath, a star navigator. He falls in love with a beautiful but dangerous human woman named Josenda. His journey is fraught with danger, betrayal, glory, and ultimately love again--in a most unexpected and astounding form. "You will never see the ending coming," says one critic who loved Lantern Road. Critics raved: In Lantern Road, John T. Cullen has created a richly-realized far-future world in which strange wonders are revealed as considerable suspense builds...reminiscent of Dune and some of Gene Wolfe's work." --Tim Pratt, Locus Online--Tim Pratt, Locus Online. See inside the book for other critical raves. "...high adventure, imminent danger, and a likeable hero...leads to a surprising, fully satisfying ending that I guarantee you will never see coming." --John Rosenman, author "...A very atmospheric reading experience. I was floored by many of the descriptive passages and conceits..." John K. Muir, CineScape, SciFi Channel, http://www.johnkennethmuir.com/.
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À propos de l'auteur
John T. Cullen is the San Diego Author (www.sandiegoauthor.com) of more than 22 books. His fiction includes suspense, thrillers, science fiction, historical fiction, and science horror. See his author website for more info: www.johntcullen.com for more info about Lethal Journey and Dead Move, as well as his many other works. On the nonfiction front, he has published many articles on history and science. He has written two acclaimed history works. One is A Walk in Ancient Rome (Clocktower Books, 2013), a virtual tour of every corner of the imperial capital in 330 CE in the reign of Constantine. The other is Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado (CTB, 2008 2012) about the 1892 true crime/ famous ghost of the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego. See www.sandiegoauthor.com for more info. New: the 2012 Third Edition of Dead Move is now bundled under one cover with Lethal Journey, the dark 1892 crime thriller about the true origins of the legendary ghost at the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego.
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