β Scribed by Adkins, Patrick H
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For untold ages before the birth of Zeus, Kronos, Lord of the Titans, ruled the world. A giant among giants, the most powerful and revered of all the gods, his unmatched strength and intelligence forged a Golden Age among the Immortals.
But that was long ago. Brooding and increasingly unpredictable, he rules now through fear and unsurpassed cunning. Only Proteus, the shape changer, Proteus's precocious little sister Metis, and her "pet" humans can pierce Kronos's web of deadly intrigue and prevent a disastrous war of the gods from being unleashed across the earth.
This is not a retelling of familiar myths, but a fast, gripping, and sometimes funny tale of adventure, love, and intrigue among the elder gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. It is a new, fictional story built around the surviving fragments of a lost mythological era--a vivid, authentic reconstruction of the Age of the Titans. First published as two separate books, the complete novel appears here as originally intended by the author. Approximate print length: 470 pages.
βPatrick Adkins is a natural-born storyteller. . . . The man knows how to spin a tale of wonder.β β Mike Resnick
βA most entertaining fantasy story, with a great deal of originality.β β Poul Anderson
βPatrick Adkins has inherited the dawn-dipped, phoenix-feather quill of Thomas Burnett Swann.β β Roger Zelazny
βIntriguing . . . Adkins has done an excellent job of bringing together the names of legend and giving them character and motivation.β βLOCUS
βThis is a terrific book . . . fascinating, entertaining, and disturbing.β βKeranβs Ebook Column
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The palace of King Kronos atop Mt. Olympus seethes with intrigue as immortals vie with one another for power while young Prometheus, his sister Metis, and Proteus, the shapechanger, ally themselves with the strange new creature known as man. Despite the inherent difficulty of portraying gods as convincing protagonists, this first novel will interest readers partial to Greek mythology. JC
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Patrick H. Adkins was seduced by the Muse at the tender age of ten and has been in and out of recovery ever since. At different times he has been a bookseller, small press publisher, "slush pile" reader for Galaxy magazine, medical and technical editor, freelance writer, story doctor, ghost writer, and editor-in-chief of a multimedia publishing company. His published works include a highly regarded series of mythological fantasies issued by Ace Books (Berkley-Putnam Publishing Group), the first two of which are included in this volume.
An antiquarian in taste and a futurist by inclination, he spends inordinate amounts of time exploring the byways of popular literature, especially 19th and early 20th Century writers, playing with his computer, and ruminating upon the implications of 21st Century science and technology. Presently he is at work on several books and short stories.
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