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The Merman's Children

✍ Scribed by Poul Anderson


Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy;Open Road Integrated Media
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
215 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1497694329

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✦ Synopsis


The last of the merfolk scour Earth for a new home to call their own
The underwater city of Liri has thrived off the coast of Denmark for generations. But now, as Europe's medieval age comes to a close, the efforts of zealous priests and the destructive ringing of church bells are causing the city to crumble. An ageless people who thrived apart from the cruelty of human existence on land, the merfolk are poetic speakers, loving and loyal, nearly impervious to death but with one great deficiency: They lack souls.

Their numbers dwindling, the merpeople scatter. Some abandon their home for the coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatic Sea, while othersβ€”the half-human, half-seaborn children of the great merfolk king Vanimenβ€”decide to scout alien territory on land for adventure, treasure, and clues to their lost human heritage.


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