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Highlights
- The fate of humanity hangs in the balance while the Gods play.The distant future.
- About the Author: Subodhana Wijeyeratne is an academic and writer living in Tokyo, Japan with his pug, Lord Nibbler, and his terrible mix Lady Leela.
- 300 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Science Fiction
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Book Synopsis
The fate of humanity hangs in the balance while the Gods play.
The distant future. Humanity is ruled by the godlike Dawn and her Triangulan allies. Her Golden Swarm keeps the garden world of Prithvi safe. Her nephew's Red Fleet secures the rest of the Nine Worlds. In the depths of the system, her regents--the Charioteer of Daitya, and the Huntress of Himenduh--bolster her authority with their own fleets, their own armies, and their own power. So it has been for three thousand years.
But, of course, nothing lasts forever.
On Daitya, a refugee family arrives from Prithvi. A mother sells her daughter into slavery. A princess seeks forbidden knowledge. Their lives could not be more different, but their stories are intertwined. They will meet in the belly of the juggernaut Skо̄lex--a vast, living starship (vimana). They will witness the fall of kingdoms and the destruction of fleets and the toppling of the old order. They will participate first-hand in the confrontation, millennia in the making, between the Dawn and her long-estranged sister, the Night, who has traveled a million light years to right an ancient wrong.
They will discover that not all is as it seems. The Triangulans are not gods. The Dawn is not just. And above all, the future--their future, humanity's future, the future of the Nine Worlds of Surya--is nothing like what they thought it would be.
Welcome to the battlefield of gods and humans. Welcome to the Nine Worlds of Surya.
Review Quotes
"This epic, bio-punk space adventure will blow your mind as it grips you by the eyeballs. Books like this are the reason I read science fiction: to discover whole other worlds, ways of being, and to leave this world for the moments I'm in their pages. Don't miss this one!"--Tobias S. Buckell, co-author of The Tangled Lands"Triangulum
describes humanity's revolt against a cadre of alien immortals,
bio-mechanical beings with a technology indistinguishable from
magic. It is a story of the far future but also the distant
past--needing to be worshiped as gods, the aliens have adopted
humanity's oldest cosmologies--the Sanskrit-language Vedas--so
that they can appear to us as devas, asuras, maruts. The
seamless amalgams of past/future, animal/machine, and
magic/technology give Subodhana Wijeyeratne's novel a
hallucinogenic vividness and clarity, and a sense of one thing
constantly becoming something else, the transformations of the
characters against a background as immutable as stars."--Paul
Park, author of Soldiers of Paradise and Sugar Rain"Triangulum is addictive. Vast in scope but intimate in its characterizations, I could not stop reading. Outstanding prose, storytelling that doesn't flinch, and a truly original universe. Space opera at its best."--Karin Lowachee, award winning author of the Warchild Mosaic
About the Author
Subodhana Wijeyeratne is an academic and writer living in Tokyo, Japan with his pug, Lord Nibbler, and his terrible mix Lady Leela. He's been writing fiction for nearly twenty years and has had nearly twenty short stories appear in print over the past two years in venues including Aphelion, Bewildering Stories, Expanded Horizons, Piker Press, and The Scarlet Leaf Review. His first collection of short stories, Tales from the Stone Lotus, came out in 2019, and his debut novel, The Slixes, was released the following year. He is also a published author of history and his interest in the history of technology in East Asia. You can find his work at the Asia-Pacific Journal, Quest, Kiyoshi English Review, and other venues.