The Unforsaken Hiero
By (Author) Sterling E. Lanier
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
17th December 2024
12th September 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk
Paperback
336
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 28mm
240g
This is the story of the world after it ended . . .
Five thousand years after the apocalyptic event known as The Death, Per Hiero Desteen - priest, telepath, assassin - has been working to find ancient information to save his people.The Brotherhood of the Unclean, a roving band of feral raiders, stage an unprecedented attack. They manage to nullify Hiero's telepathic powers, and leave him vulnerable and alone in the wasteland that once was North America.Now he has to not only survive, but strike back and stop the Brotherhood before they can wipe the vestiges of civilisation from the face of the Earth . . . forever.The sequel to the beloved novel Hiero's Journey, The Unforsaken Hiero takes us back into a world that has been irrevocably changed by the hubris of mankind, and the new races that rose to live in it.Born in NYC in 1927, Sterling Edmund Lanier was an editor, sculptor and author. Perhaps best known for championing the publication of Frank Herbert's Dune. His most famous novels include those following the crypto-adventurer Brigadier Donald Ffellowes, and his post-apocalyptic series of novels which began with Hiero's Journey. He died in Florida in 2007, aged 79.