Bright of the Sky (Book 1 of The Entire and the Rose)

Bright of the Sky (Book 1 of The Entire and the Rose) Feature

• ISBN13: 9781591026013
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Bright of the Sky (Book 1 of The Entire and the Rose) Overview

Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic, never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme.

Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead by everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallel universe--one where he himself may have been imprisoned--he returns to the Entire without resources, language, or his memories of that former life. He is assisted by Anzi, a woman of the Chalin people, a Chinese culture copied from our own universe and transformed by the kingdom of the bright. Learning of his daughter's dreadful slavery, Quinn swears to free her. To do so, he must cross the unimaginable distances of the Entire in disguise, for the Tarig are lying in wait for him. As Quinn's memories return, he discovers why. Quinn's goal is to penetrate the exotic culture of the Entire--to the heart of Tarig power, the fabulous city of the Ascendancy, to steal the key to his family's redemption.

But will his daughter and wife welcome rescue? Ten years of brutality have forced compromises on everyone. What Quinn will learn to his dismay is what his own choices were, long ago, in the Universe Entire. He will also discover why a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he must sacrifice to oppose the coming storm.

This is high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld, Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, and Dan Dimmons's Hyperion.

Customer Reviews

I'm almost done with the third book in this series and I'm really enjoying it. I have the first book for free on the Kindle and liked well enough to get the rest of the books in the series. Many reviews have pointed out the irritatingly abrupt scenes and speakers. This must be fixed, because I found only one abrupt change, and that was in the third book in Kindle editions. The reviewer, who was in "heroes" the killing of a foreign "child" was angry with the series too soon. ItsMortification and guilt for the accident is an important issue throughout history.

I love the way the author has used modern ideas in physics to develop the story. I recently TV PBS and The History Channel on string theory, the possibility of many other universes enclosed in "membranes" and as the time differences and Decisions seen in my life could the lives of people on "the other side of membranes interfere. "The author gives credit to people in the physics community that helpedthese problems, and they mix well.

The author cuts back and forth between what happens to other people's story is also good. Sometimes you do not want to leave the action part of the story to see what happens to others until they have the character we recognize it, then it is like, "Oh yeah, Sydney (or Johanna or Caitlin, or Quinn) needs Help - I wonder how he / she get out of this problem! "

No character is a saint andPart of the mystery in progress "so and so appear to be deceived, before it is too late to change their way of destroying the earth or their fault (or all)?" Shifts and treachery abound, the characters make mistakes, the solutions found in recent times, dear may be dead or lost forever, but there is always the possibility that it can be saved by the sacrifice and love the pink and all family. And if Quinn has lost his family in the process that will be on the iceCake.

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