Wings of Power: The Sabazel Series, Book Four - Softcover

Carl, Lillian Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463588658 ISBN 13: 9781463588656

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great? What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde? What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete? What if her son started the Trojan War--between India and Persia? The Sabazel series, four alternate-history, gonzo-mythology epic fantasy novels: Sabazel, The Winter King, Shadow Dancers, Wings of Power. In a world rooted in Mediterranean, Persian, and Indian history and mythology, armies clash, magicks compete, and the gods set their pawns onto the game board. Andrion’s nephew Gard, now an adult, is only too aware that the blood of both gods and demons runs in his veins. When he steps over the line once too often, he is sent into exile, where a mad monk and a beautiful slave force him to accept his latent magical abilities. But when Gard sets out to exploit his skills in the rich valley of the Mohan, he starts a war that changes his world and that of his hosts forever. “...an intense tale...a complex and fascinating plot...resonances between adolescent lust and mature love, between interior and exterior beauty, and between faith and skepticism underlie the story with a steely webwork of reality...an elegant thread of eroticism woven with delicacy and wit through the story...the prose is crafted with a jeweler's precision and the use of imagery is masterful. Carl may well be the finest stylist working in fantasy today.”—Ardath Mayhar, Thrust

About this title

From the Publisher:

An interesting re-telling of an old legend. The ending is full of twists, unpredictable, with a delightfu discussion of death and glory.

An intense tale, a complex and fascinating plot... resonances between adolescent lust and mature love, between interior and exterior beauty, and between faith and skepticism underlie the story with a steely webwork of reality. Carl may well be the finest stylist working in fantasy today.

From the Author:

Wings of Power is the fourth book of a series that was inspired by two sentences in a Smithsonian Magazine: "Which Alexander the Great shall it be? Shall it be the libertine who married three women and slept with at least four mistresses, a eunuch and even--or was this merely legend--an Amazon?"

By this book I've gotten a long way from the original two characters--Gard is their grandchild. About halfway through Wings of Power you'll catch the myth that inspired it--a simple little story about a war between the Greeks and the Trojans....

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1463588658
• ISBN 13: 9781463588656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276