Plenum: The First Book of Deo

by Geoffreyjen Edwards

Overview

Vanu Francoeur is a gender-neutral novice in the Kinship of the Suffering God, whose mandate is to seed new stars within a stellar nursery, where jonahs (living ships descended from the whales of Old Earth) roam wild. An intimate encounter with an exotic outsider stirs up a storm of conflicts within the usually quiet religious order, and triggers a spiritual awakening in Vanu that forever changes hir relationship with hir community and hir sibs. In rebellion against the Kinship's heavy-handed sanctions, zhe hurtles towards a resolution-touched by a haunting mystery-deep within the fires of a star.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971663565
Publisher:	Untimely Books
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Series:	The Ido Chronicles
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Geoffreyjen Edwards planned to be a full-time writer from an early age. He took a long detour, however, through a successful career as a scientist, and returned to his aspirations as a fiction writer only a few years before retiring from his university position. Since then, however, he has been writing and publishing steadily. Plenum: The First Book of Deo is not only his first published novel, it is the first installment of a 15-book saga currently in development called The Ido Chronicles. He lives in Quebec City, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

Vanu is one of those rare characters who stays with us, pushing up against our waking dreams. Hir exquisite curiosity mobilizes worlds we can't quite fathom even as we live them. I was deeply deeply moved. What an extraordinary book."

-Erin Manning, philosopher and artist, The Minor Gesture and For a Pragmatics of the Useless

Like the far-off song of the jonahs, GeoffreyJen's creation is luminous, keening, and strange. The author is at once warm and wise on the page-fearlessly plunging the reader into re-imagined theologies, ambitious political systems, and new sexual landscapes that verge on the poetic.

-Heather Fester, poet, essayist, and author of the forthcoming chapbook Ghosts of Things Unsaid

A poetic and wondrous SF tale that grapples with gender and faith.

-Kirkus Reviews

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