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    The City Sanguinary, Sempiternal, Vast—
    The City Sanguinary, Sempiternal, Vast—
    The City Sanguinary, Sempiternal, Vast—
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    The City Sanguinary, Sempiternal, Vast—

    By Merenel Brae

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    A young clerk from a humble background believes his technologically-advanced and cultured society to be the utopia it seems, but through a series of mysterious and inexplicable encounters he begins to doubt the foundations of his world, and is forced to confront his place in it. Inspired by the works of Jules Verne and Ursula K. Le Guin, in an especial homage to James Thomson's 1873 poem, "The City of Dreadful Night." 

     

    DETAILS & WARNINGS: 22,000 words; some consensual sexual activity (non-explicit); atmospheric horror; refrerences to political violence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGolden Thorn Press
    Release dateAug 13, 2020
    ISBN9781393208914
    The City Sanguinary, Sempiternal, Vast—
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    Merenel Brae

    Merenel Brae early in life encountered the work of Jules Verne and the Eleanors, Cameron and Farjeon, igniting a love of passionate, personality-driven tales filled with poetry and a mighty sense of wonder. They are not really a blue-haired sea elf roaming a desert land, but close enough.

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