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A God In
Hiding
A new epic fantasy by critically acclaimed
novelist, Matthew Hughes
The book is now available in e-format in North America
In a far-future world of wizards and walled cities, Lieve Reder has risen from being a small chandler’s daughter to become the captain of a riverboat owned by House Bernaglio in the oligarch-run city of Exley. She has ambitions to rise higher and when her employer, the widow Philaria Bernaglio, asks her to travel to the remote desert town of Ur Nazim to retrieve a mysterious item her dead husband, Nulf Bernaglio ordered, she signs on to the quest.
Accompanied by Dai, an artificial human created
by one of the mad thaumaturges of Olliphract to be part of the wizards’ deadly
war games, she sets out on the perilous
One challenge leads to another, leading Reder to
embark on an even more dangerous quest, to the far northern rim of the world
where she must awaken a powerful godlet that just wants to be left to dream in
peace.
Along the way, she must contend with the
assassins’ guild, secret agents of the Duke of Vanderoy, corruptible officials,
a pair of quarreling, elderly wizard brothers, an ensorcelled flying reptile,
ogres, cannibal weremen, and a surprise visitor who has the power to upend all
of Phenomenality.
Through it all, Reder keeps her eyes on the prize: to move up in the world and make her own destiny.
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Praise for Matthew Hughes:
“I really enjoyed Barbarians of the Beyond. Matthew Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone except Jack himself.” — George R. R. Martin
“Lock the door, turn off the phone, get into a comfy
chair, and deep-dive into a marvelous continuation of Jack Vance's Demon
Princes series. Matthew Hughes is a treasure and Barbarians
of the Beyond is a terrific adventure.” — David Gerrold
“Matthew Hughes follows nimbly in Jack Vance's
footprints, then breaks some fresh trail. First-class space opera.”— Robert
J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids
“Engaging and enchanting…a fine companion adventure to
Jack Vance’s The Demon Princes series, told with Matthew Hughes’s excellent
sense of charm, ethical complexity and exotic worldbuilding. Let’s hope this is
just the beginning!” — Kurt Busiek
“Barbarians of the
Beyond is just plain old-fashioned space opera fun with a
relatable heroine who is sometimes fallible, rather than some Shaolin Temple
kung fu megamaster. I enjoyed it a lot.”
— Glen Cook
“…a tale that captures that special ‘golden age’ feel in
which mankind has travelled far into the stars yet still behaves as though it’s
the Wild West.” — David White, RNR Magazine
About Matthew:
Matthew
Hughes is a Canadian author of science fiction and fantasy.
His speculative fiction novels are: Fools Errant, Fool Me Twice, Black Brillion, Majestrum, The Commons, The Spiral Labyrinth, Template, Hespira, The Other, The Damned Busters, Costume Not Included, Hell to Pay, Song of the Serpent and Wolverine: Lifeblood (both as Hugh Matthews), A Wizard’s Henchman, A God in Chains, Baldemar, and Passengers & Perils.
His
magnum opus is What the Wind Brings,
a historical novel with magical realism elements. It was the first Canadian work to win the
international Endeavour Award. He waited
more than forty years to write the novel, and spent a year composing several
drafts, made possible by a $25,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
His
major influence as a writer of speculative fiction is the Grandmaster Jack
Vance. Booklist has called Hughes
Vance’s “heir apparent.”
In
2021, Vance’s estate (Spatterlight Press), published Hughes’s Barbarians of the Beyond, an authorized
companion novel to Vance’s iconic revenge series, The Demon Princes. The book prompted
George R.R. Martin to say, “Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone except
Jack himself.”
His
short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s,
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Pulp Literature, Postscripts,
Storyteller, Interzone, Amazing,
Unfit, and several anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R.
Martin, including the bestseller, Rogues.
His
works have been short-listed for the Aurora, Locus, Nebula, Philip K Dick, A.E.
Van Vogt, Neffy, Alberta Book Publishing, and Endeavour Awards.
In
2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Association’s Hall of Fame.
Before
turning to writing fiction, he spent three decades as the top-ranked
speechwriter in British Columbia, writing for leaders of all three provincial
political parties and CEOs of the province’s largest corporations.
Since
2007, he has traveled the world as a housesitter, living in twelve countries.
More information about him can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hughes_(writer)
To
request additional review copies or an interview with Matthew Hughes, please
contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity:
mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.
We look forward to the coverage!
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