V. Peter Maslin
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 345
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Aliens are disturbing the peace in the city of Mirazor. They are abducting people from the streets and doing very unpleasant things to them. Beyond the city walls, a parasitic weed of mysterious provenance is spreading with astonishing speed across the world.Mirazor is full of refugees. The novel’s protagonist, Tegimor Halstaf, travels to the city and is reluctantly drawn into the resistance movement. Among his fellow warriors are a magician’s beautiful daughter, a belligerent dwarf with a taste for collecting alien heads, and a pair of young lovers who have escaped from the invaders’ mother-ship. Together, this curious group manage to save the world.Author V. Peter Maslin is inspired by a variety of Science-Fiction and Fantasy writers, including Brian Aldiss, M. John Harrison and William S. Burroughs. He feels his novel to be in the tradition of Meryvn Peake’s Gormenghast. Mirazor will appeal to fans of science-fantasy fiction.