Acclaimed Award-Winning Science-Fiction and Fantasy Author Kay Kenyon Brings a Sweeping Historical Fantasy Set in a Re-Imagined 19th Century in A Thousand Perfect Things
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 23, 2013 -- Renowned science fiction author Kay Kenyon has stepped into the realm of fantasy in her new book, A Thousand Perfect Things. In this epic new work, the award-winning Kenyon, whose work has been compared to Larry Nivens and Stephen R. Donaldson, creates an alternate Earth in the 19th century. This Earth is ruled by two warring factions—scientific Anglica (England) and magical Bharata (India). Tori Harding, a Victorian woman, whose heart aches to claim the legendary powers of the golden lotus, must leave her reasoned world behind and journey to Bharata. In pursuit of the golden lotus, Tori will be forced to brave its magic, intrigue, deadly secrets and haunted places, to claim her destiny and choose between two lovers in two irreconcilable realms.
“Kay Kenyon’s imagination is a joy to behold and this exciting new title will bring great satisfaction to her loyal fans,” commented Thomas Ellsworth, CEO of Premier Digital Publishing. While it is a departure from her typical sci-fi fare, Kenyon has shown she is equally adept at bringing her crisp prose to the fantasy genre.”
"Only in works of fantasy would you have the chance to write about magical terrorism, ancient ghosts, love, mutiny, Victorian repression, the British Raj, silver tigers, kraken, a god with the head of an elephant, a bridge across the ocean, the glittering court of a raja and the impossible quest for perfection - all in the same book,” said Kay Kenyon. “Fantasy isn't what it used to be. It's stranger and more varied than ever.”
Kay Kenyon will be attending World Con in San Antonio August 29 through September 2, 2013. She is available for interviews, blog tours, and online fan chats. For advance reader copies, please contact Julie Morales from Premier Digital Publishing.
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Advanced Praise for A Thousand Perfect Things
“This has become my favorite of all Kay Kenyon’s books. The science-driven men of Anglica have constructed a marvel of engineering—a bridge that crosses the ocean—but they don’t understand the mystical forces they’re facing in the dangerously seductive country of Bharata. As usual, Kenyon offers flawless world-building and a diverse cast of characters driven by conflicting and wholly believable desires. This is a rich, gorgeous, and marvelously detailed tapestry of a book.”
--Sharon Shinn, Author of Troubled Waters and Royal Airs
"Kay Kenyon has once again created a world into which one blissfully disappears, replete with magic and monsters, romance and reigning dynasties, set upon the fragile social scaffolding of mid-nineteenth century England. The story is, literally and figuratively, a bridge between the mystical and the very real, with a young heroine who a delivers a deliciously vicarious ride. Brilliantly told with elegant yet occasionally jarring prose, A Thousand Perfect Things is a masterwork from the mind of one of our best authors of compelling alternate realities."
---Larry Brooks, Author of Story Physics: Harnessing the Underlying Forces of Storytelling
About the Kay Kenyon:
Kay Kenyon is the author of eleven science fiction and fantasy novels, including The Entire and the Rose series that was hailed by The Washington Post as "A splendid fantasy quest as compelling as anything by Stephen R. Donaldson, Philip Jose Farmer or yes, J. R. R. Tolkien." Book one of the series, Bright of the Sky, was among Publisher Weekly's top 150 books of 2007. A World Too Near, City Without End and Prince of Storms, also in the series, has twice been shortlisted for the ALA Reading List awards and three times for the Endeavour Award. Four of her novels have been translated into French, Spanish and Czech. Along with her novels Tropic of Creation and Maximum Ice, two of the works in the quartet received starred reviews from PW.
Kay's short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in Insider Magazine for Wizards of the Coast. Recently, her story Castoff World appeared in The Year's Best SF 16 anthology, edited by David Hartwell.
Kay makes her home in both Washington and California.
Website: http://www.kaykenyon.com/
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For further information, please contact:
Julie Morales, Director of Marketing
Premier Digital Publishing
Los Angeles - (424)259-2240
julie(at)premierdigitalpublishing(dot)com
Julie Morales, Premier Digital Publishing, http://www.premierdigitalpublishing.com, 424-259-2240, [email protected]
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