The Algebraist

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism hoarding data without order hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order hes barely heard of part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria the latest galactic hegemony Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone hes ever known. Skyhorse Publishing under our Night Shade and Talos imprints is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera time travel hard SF alien invasion near-future dystopia) fantasy (grimdark sword and sorcery contemporary urban fantasy steampunk alternative history) and horror (zombies vampires and the occult and supernatural) and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller a national bestseller or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.