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| From | D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction? |
| Date | 2018-05-03 13:06 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2018-05-02, The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>><103134.3516@compuserve.com> wrote:
>>> On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 11:24:30 PM UTC-4, David DeLaney wrote:
>>>> On 2018-05-01, David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> And, duh, Daniel Keys Moran, though he's not the one I wasn't recalling. And
>>>> Sucharitkul's Inquestor tetralogy.
>>>
>>> Result: 'We found 0 results for "sucharitkul inquisitor"'
>>>
>>> Spell-corrected without recourse.
>
> Huh. My Google brings up multiple correct hits, w/the correct spelling of
> Inquestor anyway.
>
>> You want ???Chronicles of the High Inquest???. Published, in the UK at least,
>> under his most common pen name, SP Somtow.
>
> Light on the Sound, The Throne of Madness, Utopia Hunters, The Darkling Wind.
>
> Sweeping spaceopera told in a high mythic style. Caste systems, Inquestors
> with absolute power who {play a game / enact a rite / make war on each other /
> sorrowfully dam history at its roots} that ALWAYS ends with at least one
> inhabited planet Falling Beyond, its people compassionately evacuated and towed
> in stasis pods to other worlds to resettle behind starships whose navigation is
> made possible by the extracted giant brains of a certain species of VERY
> dangerous - ideologically, they wouldn't physically hurt a fly - space
> cetaceans, and yes that's a lot for one sentence but it doesn't even BEGIN to
> cover the major plotlines and wars.
>
> Kelver, the protagonist, is a native of the world Gallendys, with the enormous
> hollow mountain inside of which the spacewhales live and a separate race of
> people, rendered compassionately blind and deaf by the Inquest, harvest their
> brains from sailing skiffs and send them quick-frozen down the Cold River
> pipeline to the planet's one city, .... aaand searching for its name brings
> me somehow to a post of mine from 2007 at
>
> < http://rec.arts.sf.written.narkive.com/b4mpM7FI/sucharitkul-s-inquestor
> -series >
>
> which gives entirely different descriptions and makes a point I'd entirely
> forgotten about!
>
> Anyway, Hijinx quickly Ensue, seals are broken, a terrifying journey, and
> Kelver is inducted into a war he could never have imagined and raised to the
> Clan of Ton. And that's all in the first book.
>
> The series is over-the-top and glorious, and the fourth book has an appendix
> that provides a Twist Ending. Dave-Bob says five screaming stars!
>
> Dave, chocolate and marzipan under a pearled sky
Bless you David for using narkive.com. It's interesting (to me) how
narkive doesn't require secure sockets, nor javascript enabled for
itself and third party websites.
Your 2007 post ends up asking, "What sort of epiphanies have YOU-all
had this morning?
My epiphany is that narkive works better for me than the other guys'
website.
✍
Thank you,
--
Don
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