Print Length: 432 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (August 14, 2018)
Publication Date: August 14, 2018
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B078X2BG4R
Praise for THE MOONS OF BARSK
"Weird, wise, and worldly, Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard is a triumph.” —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Red Planet Blues
“The second you encounter the arboreal uplifted elephants who speak with the dead, you know you're reading a work of singular imaginative power. It's a delight from beginning to end.” —Walter Jon Williams, Nebula Award-winning author of the Metropolitan series
“A captivating, heartwarming story in a unique and fantastic world... as rich and mysterious as Dune.” —James L. Cambias, author of A Darkling Sea
“A heartfelt and wonderfully weird book: a space opera about kindness and memory.” —Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence
“A masterful, onion-layered tale of pariahdom, treachery, and genocide that ultimately reveals the true deathlessness of hope and love.” —Charles E. Gannon, author of Fire With Fire
“Combines excellent characters and a fascinating world. What really makes it work is how he deftly weaves together startling SFnal ideas with character-based intrigue. You'll really care for these characters, even as you find them believably alien. I found it a compulsive page-turner and immensely enjoyable.” —Karl Schroeder, author of Lockstep
“Powerful. Grand in scope, yet deeply intimate. Schoen gives anthropomorphism some serious spirituality. It got inside my head in the way that only an exciting new idea can.” —Howard Tayler, Hugo Award-winning creator of Schlock Mercenary
Years after the events of Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard, the lonely young outcast and physically-challenged Fant, Pizlo, is now a teenager. He still believes he hears voices from the planet’s moons, imparting secret knowledge to him alone. And so embarks on a dangerous voyage to learn the truth behind the messages. His quest will catapult him offworld for second time is his short life, and reveal things the galaxy isn’t yet ready to know.
Elsewhere, Barsk's Senator Jorl, who can speak with the dead, navigates galactic politics as Barsk's unwelcome representative, and digs even deeper into the past than ever before to discover new truths of his own.
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Elsewhere, Barsk's Senator Jorl, who can speak with the dead, navigates galactic politics as Barsk's unwelcome representative, and digs even deeper into the past than ever before to discover new truths of his own.
You can purchase The Moons of Barsk at the following Retailers:
EXCERPT
THE MOONS OF
BARSK
Lawrence M. Schoen
Tor Books
He strode further up the beach until the edge of
the island’s forest became visible through the rain. Turning slowly, he took in
everything that the storm allowed. For a moment it was as if the years fell
away and he stood as at the height of his professorial power, poised once more
behind a lectern at the front of a classroom. Beating his trunk against one
outstretched hand for emphasis he asked his questions, genuinely wanting
answers but knowing in his heart they were rhetorical. “Where are all the boats?
The fragments of so many journeys? Where are the bones of all
the people?” He bellowed into the wind and rain with the last strength
remaining to him.
The weather offered no reply. The beach remained
merely a beach. Ryne’s trunk drooped lax upon his chest. His upraised arm fell
to his side. The years weighed heavily upon him again. It was over. He’d
arrived at the last island, done with living.
And then a voice spoke from behind him.
“Really, Ryne, you might ask the same question of
any other island. Or do the people of Taylr leave their possessions strewn upon
their beaches? Do they eschew the proper rites and fail to bury such citizens
as pass before their time? Surely you don’t find debris when you travel the
points of either archipelago.”
He spun, swiftly, nearly falling but with a skip
kept his feet. There at the forest’s edge, like an actor stepping onto a stage,
a figure emerged from shadow and approached through the rain. It resolved into
a person. A woman. An old woman. An Eleph. Here, on this island that existed on
no map, that only the Dying could find, that made no sense when you thought
about it and which no one ever thought about, here was someone walking toward
him as nonchalantly as an aunt at a family gathering. And she’d called him by
name.
“Ryne of Taylr,” she said, her voice hoarse with
years but musical all the same. “I bid you welcome. I am Bernath, my mother’s
name was Layne.”
Copyright © 2018 by Lawrence
M. Schoen
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Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor, doing research in the areas of human memory and language. This was followed by seventeen years as the director of research for a medical center in Philadelphia that provided mental health and addiction services. Evidence from both these career paths can be found in almost everything he writes.
He’s also one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Klingon language, and since 1992 has championed the exploration and use of this constructed tongue and lectured throughout the world. In addition, he’s the publisher behind a speculative fiction small press, Paper Golem, aimed at showcasing up-and-coming new writers as well as providing a market for novellas. And too, he performs occasionally as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues.
In 2007, he was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He received a Hugo Award nomination for Best Short Story in 2010 and Nebula Award nominations for Best Novella in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2018, and for Best Novel in 2016. He's received the Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award as well as the Coyotl Award for Best Novel. Some of his most popular writing deals with the ongoing humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist named the Amazing Conroy and his animal companion Reggie, an alien buffalito that can eat anything and farts oxygen. More serious writing can be found in his BARSK series, which uses anthropomorphic SF to explore ideas of prophecy, intolerance, political betrayal, speaking to the dead, predestination, and free will.
Lawrence lives near Philadelphia with his wife, Valerie, who is neither a psychologist nor a Klingon speaker.
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