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THE PROMISE OF THE CHILD
Volume One of the Amaranthine Spectrum
"One of the best SciFi books [I've] read in the past few years." (Editor Simon Spanton)
Gollancz lead title in Autumn 2015.
Gollancz lead title in Autumn 2015.
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 Longlifethe Usurper, a man who is not quite a manmakes 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.
Thomas N. Toner was born in the English countryside to two parents employed by the BBC (his mother was a set designer for Doctor Who). He studied fine art and painting in Loughborough and lives in London. THE PROMISE OF THE CHILD is his first novel.
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.
Thomas N. Toner was born in the English countryside to two parents employed by the BBC (his mother was a set designer for Doctor Who). He studied fine art and painting in Loughborough and lives in London. THE PROMISE OF THE CHILD is his first novel.
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Published 2015-09-01 by Night Shade Books |