The Shades of Time and Memory: Bk. 2: UK Edition Bk. 2 (Wraeththu Histories) by Storm Constantine |
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After being away for many years, Storm Constantine returns to the saga of Wraeththu, picking up threads from the original trilogy and weaving them into a stunning new novel, The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure.
The setting is, again, a future earth in which humanity has been supplanted as the dominant species by the hermaphrodite Wraeththu. Though they believe themselves to have inherited the earth, in truth Wraeththu have yet to learn the truth about their origins. They have expanded their number through mutating humans into hara like themselves, but now comes the time for them to probe the mysteries of creation.
After a magical Festival night that surpassed all others, when the world of Wraeththu was shaken to its core, two hara, Ulaume and Flick, embark upon separate journeys in search of meaning and truth. Their paths cross, and they find they share a single destiny: to discover the truth about who holds power in the fabled city of Immanion and to defend the outcast harling Lileem, who is linked with the strange Kamagrian tribe.
From dangerous skirmishes with other tribes to life in hiding on the river boat Esmeraldarine; from chance encounters in the town of Galhea, to the isolated Kamagrian city of Shilalama, Ulaume and Flick must fight to retain their freedom and protect Lileem, who might be the key to the destiny of all Wraeththu.
Many characters from the previous novels reappear in Wraiths. Besides Flick and Ulaume, the story includes Calanthe and Orien, plus Seel and his consort Swift, along with Swift’s enigmatic hostling, Cobweb. There is also the Tigron Pellaz and swirling above all of them, forever the puppeteer, the powerful Thiede, mother and father of Wraeththudom. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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What Ulaume heard made no sense. He heard a horse scream. He smelled cordite. He saw blood running across sandy soil, dark blood, from somewhere deep inside. The sight of it touched him, moved him and he felt something he’d never felt before. He didn’t know what it was, but it wasn’t fear. He saw the face of Pellaz, as he’d appeared when Ulaume had first met him, his eyes full of curiosity and desire. Ulaume’s essence was drawn towards those eyes. This time their welcome would not turn to ice. But when Ulaume reached them, they were glazed over and dull. They were dead.
After being away for many years, Storm Constantine returns to the saga of Wraeththu, picking up threads from the original trilogy and weaving them into a stunning new novel, The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure.
The setting is, again, a future earth in which humanity has been supplanted as the dominant species by the hermaphrodite Wraeththu. Though they believe themselves to have inherited the earth, in truth Wraeththu have yet to learn the truth about their origins. They have expanded their number through mutating humans into hara like themselves, but now comes the time for them to probe the mysteries of creation.
After a magical Festival night that surpassed all others, when the world of Wraeththu was shaken to its core, two hara, Ulaume and Flick, embark upon separate journeys in search of meaning and truth. Their paths cross, and they find they share a single destiny: to discover the truth about who holds power in the fabled city of Immanion and to defend the outcast harling Lileem, who is linked with the strange Kamagrian tribe.
From dangerous skirmishes with other tribes to life in hiding on the river boat Esmeraldarine; from chance encounters in the town of Galhea, to the isolated Kamagrian city of Shilalama, Ulaume and Flick must fight to retain their freedom and protect Lileem, who might be the key to the destiny of all Wraeththu.
Many characters from the previous novels reappear in Wraiths. Besides Flick and Ulaume, the story includes Calanthe and Orien, plus Seel and his consort Swift, along with Swift’s enigmatic hostling, Cobweb. There is also the Tigron Pellaz and swirling above all of them, forever the puppeteer, the powerful Thiede, mother and father of Wraeththudom. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From the Inside Flap
What Ulaume heard made no sense. He heard a horse scream. He smelled cordite. He saw blood running across sandy soil, dark blood, from somewhere deep inside. The sight of it touched him, moved him and he felt something he’d never felt before. He didn’t know what it was, but it wasn’t fear. He saw the face of Pellaz, as he’d appeared when Ulaume had first met him, his eyes full of curiosity and desire. Ulaume’s essence was drawn towards those eyes. This time their welcome would not turn to ice. But when Ulaume reached them, they were glazed over and dull. They were dead.
‘Ulaume!’ Rough hands shook his body, hauled him to his feet. Someone slapped his face hard. ‘Ulaume! Come out of it! Come back!’
Ulaume blinked, gulped air, sucked it into his body in a powerful rush. Sound and movement hurtled back, his stilled heart raced frantically. The night was confusion and riot around him. He saw Lianvis’ face before him, pinched with concern, and slumped against his body.
‘What happened?’ Lianvis demanded.
Ulaume raised his head, shook it slowly from side to side. The movement filled him with nausea.
‘Tell me,’ Lianvis said in a low voice. ‘I must know.’
Ulaume wiped his mouth with the back of one hand. ‘He’s dead,’ he said. ‘That’s all you need to know.’
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On the night if the last full moon before the winter solstice, the hara of the desert Wraeththu tribe of Kakkahaar cast off their sand-colored robes and dance naked beneath the stars. Read the first page
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