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James Patrick Kelly


Planet of Whispers

Planet of Whispers

Messengers Chronicles: Book 1

James Patrick Kelly

FIRST CONTACT!

The three thousand-year-old thearchy which rules the planet Aseneshesh faces certain disaster as the Chani civilization is racked by famine and rebellion -- a famine caused by the alien "messengers," who are willing to trade grain for Chani blood, and nothing else.

Young Curin is ordered by his master, the Lord Protector of the Thearchy, to carry a secret message to the distant highlands. It is a perilous journey in the best of times, and for an unworldly scholar, it is certain death.

But Curin's adventure among the lionlike people of his planet is a revelation, and he will learn, ultimately, that nothing is as he believed it to be: not his world, not his master. not his mission... not even his god, not even himself.

Look into the Sun

Look into the Sun

Messengers Chronicles: Book 2

James Patrick Kelly

IT'S A BRAVE NEW WORLD...

Phillip Wing is a brilliant architect--the designer of the new "Wonder of the World." While proud of his creation, Wing does not feel warmly towards those who brought the technology that helped to build it. The Messengers are aliens who have come to Earth with a message, a new religious philosophy that seems to sap human aggressiveness... and has taken Phillip's wife away from him.

While Wing struggles with his own life, on a distant world a living Goddess struggles with the future of her people.

Teaqua, the immortal Thearch of the Chani, has concluded that her people must enter fully into the consortium of the Messengers. To do so, she must die, in a way that will let the people know she has gone before them into the wider Universe.

The Messengers believe that there is only one being who can build a fitting tomb to achieve this purpose--Phillip Wing. To embark on the greatest challenge of his life, Wing will have to leave Earth... and abandon his own humanity.

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