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    Terminus
    Terminus
    Terminus
    Audiobook16 hours

    Terminus

    Written by Tristan Palmgren

    Narrated by Gildart Jackson

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    About this audiobook

    Operatives from an alien culture struggle to survive in medieval Italy, in the SF sequel to the astonishing Quietus.

    The transdimensional empire, the Unity, has dissolved, its ruling powers forced into exile-but empires don't die easily. The living planarship Ways and Means has come to medieval Earth and ended the Black Death, but it keeps its intentions to itself. Someone is trying to kill its agent Osia, who is suffering through her own exile. Spy-turned-anthropologist Meloku becomes a target, too, when she catches Ways and Means concealing the extent of its meddling. While they fight to survive, Fiametta-an Italian soldier, mercenary, and heretical preacher-raises an army and a religious revolt, aiming to split Europe in half.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9781684419609
    Terminus
    Author

    Tristan Palmgren

    TRISTAN PALMGREN is the author of the critically acclaimed genre-warping blend of historical fiction and space opera novel Quietus, and its sequel Terminus. They have been a clerk, a factory technician, a university lecturer, a cashier, a secretary, a retail manager, a rural coroner's assistant. In their lives on parallel Earths, they have been an ant farm tycoon, funeral home enthusiast, professional con-artist impersonator, laser pointer chaser, and the person who somehow landed a trademark for the word "Avuncular." Jealous. They live with their partner in Salem, Virginia.

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    • 4/5
      Bought this in a pre-order and it's a brilliant next installment from the first book.

      I don't think I have ever seen such an unusual historical fiction scifi mash up (anthropologist aliens, strange dimensions, and Plague era monks all rolled into one...) It's really, truly different.