No Return: A Novel of Jeroun, Book One

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On Jeroun, there is no question as to whether God existsonly what his intentions are. Under the looming judgment of Adrash and his ultimate weapon warring factions of white and black suits prove their opposition to the orbiting god with the great fighting tournament of Tchootoo, on the far side of Jeroun's only inhabitable continent. From the Thirteenth Order of Black Suits comes Vedas, a young master of martial arts, laden with guilt over the death of one of his students. Traveling with him are Churls, a warrior woman and mercenary haunted by the ghost of her daughter, and Manshep, a constructed man made of modular spheres possessed by the foul spirit of his creator. Together they must brave their own demons, as well as thieves, mages, beasts, dearth, and hardship on the perilous road to Tchootoo, and the bloody sectarian battle that is sure to follow.

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The most daring debut novel of 2013.
Staffers Book Review

Pulls no punches in its rich, visceral depictions of sexuality, martial arts, punk energy, and the philosophical quandaries of power and identity that speculative fiction uniquely exploitsand that few up-and-coming speculative writers outside Jernigan tackle with such guts.
The A.V. Club

Pure genius. . . A visionary, violent, sexually charged, mystical novel.
David Anthony Durham, Campbell Award-winning author of the Acacia Trilogy
The most daring debut novel of 2013.
Staffers Book Review

Pulls no punches in its rich, visceral depictions of sexuality, martial arts, punk energy, and the philosophical quandaries of power and identity that speculative fiction uniquely exploitsand that few up-and-coming speculative writers outside Jernigan tackle with such guts.
The A.V. Club

Pure genius. . . A visionary, violent, sexually charged, mystical novel.
David Anthony Durham, Campbell Award-winning author of the Acacia Trilogy

Author Bio

Zachary Jernigan is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose work has been featured in Asimovs Science Fiction, Crossed Genres, and Escape Pod, among others. No Return is his debut novel. A sequel, Shower of Stones, will be released in 2015.