Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, hasin this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, theUniverse Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, theEntire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alienbeings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders,the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic,never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme.Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, formerstar pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead byeveryone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a paralleluniverse--one where he himself may have been imprisoned--he returns to theEntire without resources, language, or his memories of that former life. Heis assisted by Anzi, a woman of the Chalin people, a Chinese culture copiedfrom our own universe and transformed by the kingdom of the bright.Learning of his daughter's dreadful slavery, Quinn swears to free her. Todo so, he must cross the unimaginable distances of the Entire in disguise,for the Tarig are lying in wait for him. As Quinn's memories return, hediscovers why. Quinn's goal is to penetrate the exotic culture of theEntire--to the heart of Tarig power, the fabulous city of the Ascendancy,to steal the key to his family's redemption. But willhis daughter and wife welcome rescue? Ten years of brutality have forcedcompromises on everyone. What Quinn will learn to his dismay is what hisown choices were, long ago, in the Universe Entire. He will also discoverwhy a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he mustsacrifice to oppose the coming storm. This is high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose Farmer'sRiverworld, Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, and Dan Dimmons's Hyperion.