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The Book: Barsk,
The Elephants’ Graveyard
Author: Lawrence M. Schoen
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Available from: Fine booksellers, including Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Overview:
The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a
moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and
forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk:
The Elephants' Graveyard
An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared
by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future.
Between them are truths that will shake worlds.
In a distant future, no remnants of human beings
remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the
offspring of humanity's genius-animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient
beings.
The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracized by
other races, and long ago exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. There,
they develop medicines upon which all species now depend. The most coveted of
these drugs is koph, which allows a small number of users to interact with the
recently deceased and learn their secrets.
To break the Fant's control of koph, an offworld
shadow group attempts to force the Fant to surrender their knowledge. Jorl, a
Fant Speaker with the dead, is compelled to question his deceased best friend,
who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. In so doing, Jorl unearths a
secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever. Meanwhile, his
dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by
disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future. Note: as a title published between January 1 and December 31 2015, this book is eligible for a Hugo nomination.
IMAGE: Many thanks to Amazon, for the cover image.
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