by TomArden (Author)
Long ago, the mysterious bearers of a golden, magical jewel retreated to the Lamasery of the Winds, high in the mountains. Then came the avalanche. Many think the lamasery has been destroyed. Others know the truth is stranger by far. Caught between dimensions, its powers persist and grow. But are they powers of good -- or welling, insidious evil? Returning at last to his rightful kingdom, Prince Jemany faces the final conflict in his desperate battle to reunite the sacred Crystals of Orok and defeat his evil rival, the anti-god Toth-Vexrah, whose campaign of conquest is now almost complete. In an icy, midwinter city, ravaged by terrorism, brutal murder and impending war, Jem struggles for clues to his last, most mysterious, and most powerful prize, the searing, sun-like crystal of the sky god Agonis. From its mysterious opening scenes to its devastating climax, Empress of the Endless Dream, the fifth and final volume of Tom Arden's apocalyptic fantasy epic, is a helter-skelter, heart-stopping rush of black humour and horror, murder and mysticism, the divine and the depraved.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 608
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 14 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0575601965
ISBN 13: 9780575601963
Book Overview: The final volume in Tom Arden's glorious epic fantasy It's grim, it's witty ... vastly entertaining on several levels SFsite Arden is a very stylish writer Interzone A sprawling baroque tapestry, with wit, style and action ... a triumph of which Arden should be justly proud SFX