City on a Star book 3: A Bard on Hercular
Eisenstein Syzygy Kell, now grown to adulthood and known as Ice, is a galactic singing superstar, the Troubadour of all Troubadours. When he gives a concert on Hercular, he escapes a bombing and kidnapping attempt. A group of winged young people whisk him to safety through many of the five independent environments of this seeded world.
The tale that began in Dryland’s End with the fall of the Matriarchy in the Center Worlds concludes at the planets in the outer reaches. A Bard on Hercular chronicles new generations on new adventures.
"In full-fledged sci-fi form, Picano has created entirely new civilizations, species, even new language forms for his society. A phenomenally well-written book."
– Virginia Gazette on Dryland's End.
Paper: 288 pgs ~ 978-1-951092-70-2 ~ $19.95
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From the publisher:
RELEASE WEEK! Felice Picano burst onto the book scene in the mid-1970s ... from bookseller at New York's legendary Rizzoli Bookshop to storyteller with his very first novel, a thriller, nominated for a PEN/Hemingway Award. And since the late 1970s, he's consciously told OUR stories in OUR words (ok, HIS words) in settings as diverse as Victorian, contemporary New York, gay meccas of Provincetown and Los Angeles ... and into the far flung future.
A BARD ON HERCULAR is his latest novel, the final installment in an incredible 450,000 word epic trilogy, and it's out this week in e-book and glorious print. CITY ON A STAR Trilogy was begun thirty years ago as DRYLAND'S END. It begins on a waterworld, proceeds through THE BETROTHAL AT USK on a desertworld and concludes here on Hercular, a world of several ecologies.
Also available: Vol. 1 --Dryland's End, Vol 2--The Betrothal at Usk