West of January

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781497605794

<DIV><B>The Aurora Award&ndash;winning novel of a remote far-future world caught in a cycle of destruction, from the author of the Seventh Sword saga. </B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> On the distant planet of Vernier, a single day lasts an eternity. Lifetimes pass before a region fully experiences dawn, midday, and dusk. With each new daybreak comes a new generation, with no memory of the catastrophes that occurred when the sun crawled across the sky&mdash;entire civilizations scorched into oblivion. Only Vernier&rsquo;s &ldquo;angels&rdquo; possess the ancient knowledge to preserve past technologies that will save the world&rsquo;s population from the ruthless cycle of destruction.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Knobil was born during the west of January among the herdsmen, a primitive culture in which the men fight to the death to preserve their own lineage. He is also the son of an &ldquo;angel,&rdquo; who left him the means to enter Heaven. It is an odyssey that will take Knobil among all the other peoples of his world&mdash;the beautiful but unthinking seafolk, the cruel slavers, the manipulative traders, the secretive spinsters&mdash;to a destiny he may die before embracing at the far end of December.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Of epic scope, this is a novel of the struggle for survival in a hostile environment from the author of <I>The Reluctant Swordsman</I> and <I>Portal of a Thousand Worlds</I>, &ldquo;an expert at producing page-turning adventure&rdquo; (<I>Locus</I>).<BR /> &#160;</DIV>