The Selk King

Flores pursues abducted Amina to the Island of the Dead, recruiting a ship and a crew to rescue her. A new roster of misanthropes appear: Fish, slave of the Golden Cyclops and the eternal whirling sceptre; the senile miser King Kot, whose “piebald raiment awaits.” On the island, Flores, like Dante, ascends the many levels of Ra’Allah, or Heavenhell, climbing an intricately carved tower of black basalt from its baser regions to the cloud-driven city of the malkops, or selks, which is constructed entirely of the diamond-hard tear-glass called irsrem. After many delays in strange locales, Flores leads his clansmen in a climactic and gory invasion of the city in the clouds, where he at last confronts the Adversary of Men. Behind the Veil secrets lurk in this thinking man’s swashbuckling fantasy tale with non-stop action.