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A World Too Near
2008
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
425
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In Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon introduced a milieu unique in science fiction and fantasy: The Entire, a five-armed radial universe that exists in a dimension without stars and planets and is parallel to our own universe. Stretched over The Entire is a lid of plasma, called the bright, which ebbs and flows, bringing day and twilight. Under the vast canopy of the bright live many galactic species, copied from our own universe. Former star pilot Titus Quinn loves The Entire, but now he must risk annihilating it by destroying the fortress of Ahnenhoon. To sustain a faltering Entire, Ahnenhoon's great engine will soon reach through the brane separating the universes and consume our own universe in a concentrated ball of fire. Quinn sets off on a journey across The Entire armed with the nan, a small ankle bracelet containing nanoscale military technology that can reduce Ahnenhoon and its deadly engine to chaos. He must pursue his mission even though his wife is held prisoner in Ahnenhoon and his own daughter has sent the assassin MoTi to hunt him down. As he traverses the galactic distances of The Entire, he learns more of the secrets of its geography, its fragile storm walls, its eons-long history, and the factions that contend for dominance. One of these factions is led by his daughter, who though young and a slave, has at her command a transforming and revolutionary power. As Quinn wrestles with looming disaster and approaches the fabled concentric rings of Ahnenhoon's defenses, he learns that in the Entire, nothing is what it appears. Its denizens are all harboring secrets, and the greatest of these is the nature of the Entire itself.

Avg Rating
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Author

Kay Kenyon
Kay Kenyon
Author · 22 books

Kay Kenyon is the author of eighteen fantasy and science fiction novels. Her work has been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the American Library Association Reading List award. Her newest fantasy series is The Arisen Worlds quartet. "A story of powers and magic on a grand scale. This will be a series to treasure.” —Louisa Morgan, author of The Great Witch of Brittany. Latest in the series is Book 2, Stranger in the Twisted Realm. Book 1, The Girl Who Fell Into Myth is on sale. Book 3 Servant of the Lost Power is on pre-order for a February 20, 2024 release. Book 4, coming soon, is entitled Keeper of the Mythos Gate. Her series, The Dark Talents novels, has been optioned for film. The trilogy begins with At the Table of Wolves. Other fantasy novels include Queen of the Deep and A Thousand Perfect Things. Connect with her at http://www.kaykenyon.com. She lives in beautiful eastern Washington State in the foothills of the Cascades.

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