Lords of Rainbow or The Book of Fulfillment - Hardcover

Nazarian, Vera

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592248233 ISBN 13: 9781592248230

Publisher: Wildside Pr, 2003

Synopsis

An epic fantasy about a monochrome world without color, an eccentric warrior woman, a decadent glorious city, and the ultimate struggle against the coming of darkness both external and inside the human heart.

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From the Inside Flap:

Imagine a world without color, illuminated by a gray sun . . .

Imagine a sudden brilliant flash — an artificial orb ignites, filled with peculiar impossible light. . . .

The nature of this light bears no description. It lingers in dreams, inciting an unrequited love for a goddess.

A corrupt city is shaped like a perfect wheel, and is ruled by a sister and brother, Regent and Regentrix, by perverse desires, and by a secret. . . .

A loyal warrior woman swears to serve a mysterious lord.

At the same time, an epic invasion is precipitated by a being of utter darkness, who is the one absolute source of black in a monochrome silver world.

And amid all this, flickers an ancient memory of a phenomenon called Rainbow and of those who had once filled the world with an impossible thing called color. . . .

Lords of Rainbow.

"To read Vera Nazarian's Lords of Rainbow is to be immersed in a dream, wandering through a wondrous, shifting landscape where the sun shines silver and the world is rendered in an infinite palette of subtle grays, filled with glimpses of sublime loveliness and glorious *color*."
— Jacqueline Carey, author of KUSHIEL'S DART

"... like all of Vera's stories — strange, poignant, and exquisite.... her novel about a world without color — strange when what she writes is so colorful."
— Marion Zimmer Bradley

"In Lords of Rainbow, a current of liquid prosody carries us deep into the heart of an exotic city — and deep into the heart of an extraordinary woman. But every character is a vibrant revelation in this luscious, variegated realm of light and shadow. All emotion rings true in this place, and all truths shine with prismatic complexity. At once brutal and tender, transcendent and visceral, Nazarian's lush fable enthralls."
— Terry McGarry, author of ILLUMINATION

"Vera Nazarian's second novel, Lords of Rainbow, is a delight, full of the rich imagery, the humor, lyricism, adventure, insight, and delicious eastern fairy tale flavor that readers first met in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Nazarian gives us a tale wove out of color — unpredictable, funny, wise, and always entertaining. She's a talent to watch."
— Sherwood Smith, author of CROWN DUEL

About the Author:

Vera Nazarian left the former Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War as a refugee at the age of eight and arrived in the United States a month before her 10th birthday by way of Lebanon, Greece, and Italy. She sold her first short story at the age of 17 and since then has published numerous works of short fiction in anthologies and magazines such as the Sword and Sorceress and Darkover series edited by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, and has seen her work translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, and Hungarian.

She is an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and recently made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed mythic fantasy DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE.

LORDS OF RAINBOW is her second novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1592248233
• ISBN 13: 9781592248230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388