Marca is a unique three-volume science fiction epic set entirely within a non human environment
For many thousands of years the Chams of Selan had enjoyed the unrivalled freedom and prosperity of their perfect society. Now that tranquil existence is challenged when a young Cham Marca finds that he is the long-sought heir to a brilliant destiny..
But that destiny comes at a price.
Together with his lover the beautiful Antalya, Marca is thrown into the midst of a struggle that reaches beyond his own planet the Padniemzan Union, a sprawling empire at the edge of the Local Sector. For an age-old power he has awakened on Selan, and when that awakening threatens the supremacy of the Union’s dreaded tyrant, Marca and his companions face a desperate bid to survive.
A strange tale and a haunting one is Marca. It is a wildly mysterious tale, a magical and mystical tale, a tale told in another land, lavishly adorned with pictures of unknown worlds and resonating to the lilt of unknown tongues. And woven into the richly-textured fabric of the narrative there is a wealth of colourful detail: a frozen cascade, a graven mountainside, a living flame held captive in a nightmare chamber, a blazing bolt of fire in the hands of a hesitant hero, a timeworn tower glinting gold in the sunset, rain and a rain-drenched runner glimpsed from the high window of a love-warmed morning, a tilted colonnade of summer sunbeams slanting across an ancient hallway, a phantom fall of fragile leaves around a dreamwalking seer—all these things and much, much more, while over the whole there rides a survey-sweep of a world that is at once alien yet intensely familiar.
