By Hal Duncan
ISBN-10: 0345487311
ISBN-13: 9780345487315
A unprecedented, incendiary debut from a unprecedented new expertise, Vellum showcases a fancy and complicated point of writing coupled with a fecund mind's eye that defies description.
VELLUM: THE e-book OF ALL HOURS
It’s 2017 and angels and demons stroll the earth. after they have been human; now they're unkin, reworked by means of the traditional machine-code language of fact itself. They search The e-book of All Hours, the legendary tome in which the blueprint for all fact is transcribed, which has been misplaced someplace within the Vellum–the big realm of eternity upon which our global is an insignificant scratch.
The Vellum, the place the unkin are amassing for war.
The Vellum, the place a fallen angel and a renegade satan are approximately to settle an age-old feud.
The Vellum, the place the earlier, current, and destiny will collide with historic worlds and myths.
And the Vellum will burn. . . .
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Howls Iggy Pop, and the murderous guitar of the Stooges’ TV Eye kicks in, as Phreedom Messenger opens up the throttle on the bike and roars out of her pit stop on the way to hell. w hor e of b a by l on , qu e e n of h e av e n And Inanna continued on her way toward the underworld. She journeyed from ancient Sumer up the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, through the whole of Babylon and into Hittite Haran. She traveled into Canaan with the Habiru who called her Ishtar. She went with them into Egypt and they called her Ashtaroth when she returned, leaving behind only a memory, the myth of Isis.
Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” And she’s close. She can feel reality stretch thin around her, like the world itself is only a skin, translucent, tenuous, the Vellum rippling underneath what’s real, underneath, beyond, behind. She’s followed the path her brother’s ripped through time, pitched back and forward in his wake, cresting the waves and working her way inward to the source, the impact zone, where he broke through, like a comet smashing into the ocean.
And the beaded curtain rattles as she pushes through it into the dark room where the woman in the veil looks up and pauses in her work, a buzzing tattooist’s needle in her hand. And there’s another hand, grabbing at her arm, the assistant’s. And when she entered the seventh gate, from her body the royal robe was removed. ” Inanna asked. “Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” asks Phreedom. “I said, you can’t go in. ” “She’ll see me,” Phreedom says. NAKED AND BOWED LOW Naked and bowed low, Inanna entered the throne room of Eresh of the Greater Earth, who arose.
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