Publisher's Synopsis
Eight thousand years in the future, and many parsecs across the galaxy, humankind has entered a fabulous age known as the Renaissance of Mankind. Two attractive, smart young persons meet at a remote university world, and fall in love: a young commoner and a beautiful princess. Their future looks bright -- until a sudden, catastrophic attack by a blood-thirsty, merciless alien race known as the Kaarrk Swarm darkens everyone's life and calls for the utmost heroism and sacrifice.
Zara is the Crown Princess Upholder, of the ruling clan on the Tellerine world in the Corduwaine system. Ranay is a gifted commoner who gives up a promising future in his home system to marry her and live his life out with her on her far away home world. Humans and aliens have lived in peace for centuries after many bitter wars long ago. The humans live under the spiritual rule of a female pope known as the Holy Mother, who is attended by battalions of fearless, devoted military priestesses. The Kaarrk Swarm are about to shatter that peace in a holocaust of blood, violence, terror, and death.
At first arrival on peaceful, lovely Tellerine, everything looks wonderful and promising for the young couple, despite her gruff father the mighty Lord Trask, Upholder of Corduwaine and Tellerine. We meet Zara's sisters and other members of a strong, resilient frontier world.
Just when life seems perfect for Ranay and Zara, the Kaarrk Swarm attack in force, including a behemoth mothership that almost literally eats planets. Tragedy and horror rip through the peaceful Corduwaine System. Suddenly, it's all about life and death, demanding courage and duty. Fighting alongside military priestesses, mystical abbesses, time-traveling HM Sacred Agents, and other denizens of this future galaxy, Ranay and Zara confront their ultimate fates--and surprises beyond imagination.
After thousands of years of suffering and near annihilation, the human race is stronger and wiser, living in peace with other races. But a terror lurks beyond the dust clouds and dim light years of far space, threatening to destroy civilization and humankind. The enemy is so powerful, so implacable, so filled with hate, that its very name inspires chills: The Kaarrk Swarm are a militant hive culture whose only emotion is a relentless hunger to be vicious. A dying hive scorpion's only emotion is rage because it will no longer live to hate and kill.
This gripping new novel in John Argo's Empire of Time series joins a sweeping cosmic history spanning eons of time and light years of space. Its lyrical, at times poetic language reminds us of the atmosphere, epic story telling, larger than life characters, and lyric poetry of science fiction classics - think of Frank Herbert's Dune, James Tiptree Jr.'s 20,000 Light Years from Home, Cordwainer Smith's The Planet Buyer, and A. E. Van Vogt's Weapon Shops of Isher.
Read Far Wars, and then explore the other novels so far in the Empire of Time Series, starting with Summer Planets written by John Argo as a teenager, finished at age 19, which has become the series corner stone. In Later Novels: You'll meet the Holy Mother and her military priestesses in Mars the Divine, and you'll see the Kaarrk Swarm in action in John Argo's Escape Prison World Or Die, another novel of far future distant wars in the galaxy. Details on the series can be found at www empireoftime com.
Far Wars is a far future science fiction novel - a symphony of love, war, loss, and rebirth in a distant future time place in the galaxy. It's a powerful love story set against a sweeping background - an SF Doctor Zhivago more than 7000 years from now. Stunning and poetic far-future history by John Argo in the tradition of Cordwainer Smith's Classic Norstrilia and other tales of the Instrumentality.
