War in Heaven

War in Heaven
David Zindell

A triumphant close to The Requiem for Homo Sapiens – an epic tour de force that began with The Broken God and was followed by The Wild.Danlo wi Soli Ringess now has the greatest mission of his life to complete. With Bertram Jaspari’s evil Architects terrorising the universe with their killing star – the morrashar – and Hanuman’s Ringists intent on converting the rest of humanity to the Way of Ringess, Danlo must somehow try to prevent War in Heaven.Behind him travels an army of lightships, commanded by the ever-larger-than-life Bardo, falling from fixed-point to fixed-point throughout the deep, dark spaces of the Vild, ready to do battle, if they must, with the Ringists’ fleet, lying in ambush for them beyond the Star of Neverness.War in Heaven brings to a cataclysmic finale the most amazing and awe-inspiring journey in modern science fiction, combining the ultimate in space adventure with philosophy, mathematics, spirituality and superb characterization. It is truly the greatest romantic epic of modern sf.

DAVID ZINDELL

War in Heaven

BOOK THREE

of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens

COPYRIGHT (#ulink_fff34c32-1708-57af-b354-d7a5df622c99)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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PRAISE (#ulink_e1e589d6-16dc-547f-bfba-8c8b2d1d9e84)

Gene Wolfe declared Zindell ‘one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest’. His first novel, Neverness, was published to great acclaim. A reviewer in the New Scientist wrote of it in 1992: ‘David Zindell writes of interstella mathematics in poetic prose that is a joy to read.’

The Broken God, Book One of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, is a sequel to Neverness. It has been hailed as Dune for the 1990s and was equally well-received: ‘SF as it ought to be: challenging, imaginative, thought-provoking and well-written. Zindell has placed himself at the forefront of literary SF.’

Times Literary Supplement

The Wild, Book Two of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, was also published to great acclaim: ‘A disturbing vision of the impending collapse of a transgalactic society … the ideas are hard SF with philosophical undertones, and the story is compelling.’

New Scientist

With War in Heaven Zindell completes A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, bringing to a cataclysmic finale the most amazing journey in modern science fiction. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

CONTENTS

Cover (#u469dfedc-b128-5b98-a1c9-9e9bf20d23d8)

Title Page (#u92842ef8-54cb-5966-ba25-ef791e8ed288)

Copyright (#ulink_e620de22-5e47-551f-814c-2b78fa607e31)

Praise (#ued91e9c2-c870-50de-9695-740263f44601)

Chapter I: In the Hall of the Lords (#ulink_94ef8a5d-f866-5047-9a96-da80eaba100b)

Chapter II: Fate (#ulink_dcc9b8f7-9a47-5bb5-a3af-4ffcb8300de7)

Chapter III: The Two Hundred Lightships (#ulink_b423d086-55c9-55b4-9b9a-36480a2e8879)

Chapter IV: Sheydveg (#ulink_64019c66-e021-5129-92df-b12b7a32700f)

Chapter V: The Golden Ring (#ulink_f7d09434-ab12-5fda-b038-909193276c35)

Chapter VI: The Lords of Neverness (#ulink_b95e8a69-4d8c-55bc-87d1-4a16a64e1e9a)

Chapter VII: A Law for Gods (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter VIII: Pain (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter IX: Mora’s Star (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter X: The Nine Stages (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XI: The Paradox of Ahimsa (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XII: The First Pillar of Ringism (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XIII: Hope (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XIV: The Face of a Man (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XV: Tamara (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XVI: The Starving (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XVII: A Piece of Bread (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XVIII: The Hunt (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XIX: The Breath of the World (#litres_trial_promo)