Publisher's Synopsis
Sherlock Holmes meets Jack Vance's Dying Earth in
The Spiral Labyrinth, the new novel from Matthew
Hughes, acclaimed author of Majestrum.
The universe continues to shift away from logic
and reason, rewriting its basic operating system,
bringing about a new age of sympathetic
association, or magic.
It was bad enough when Henghis Hapthorn,
Old Earth's foremost discriminator and diehard
empiricist, had to accept this coming of
a new age of magic. Now he no longer has
the leisure to anticipate and prepare for the
inevitable changes. Hapthorn finds himself
cast forward and stranded several centuries
in the future. This new world of contending
wizards and hungry dragons is a difficult one
to assimilate, and Hapthorn must do so without
his magic-savvy alter ego.
Worse, some entity with a will powerful enough to
bend space and time is searching for him through the
Nine Planes, bellowing "Bring me Apthorn!" in a voice
loud enough to frighten demons.
