<div>&ldquo;This unusual, enjoyable second novel by Engh (<I>Arslan</I>) is a charming picaresque adventure set on another planet. To this unnamed planet comes the odd-looking man known as the Exile. The Warden, Lethgro, has captured the Exile after his escape from Sollet Castle, and now holds him prisoner on the small sailing ship, Mouse. But when an inspector of the Council of Beng is about to board the Mouse, Captain Repnomar, seeing that her friend the Warden does not wish to surrender the Exile to the Council, cuts and runs. And so begins for Lethgro, Repnomar and the Exile (who we have begun to suspect is an Earthman) an around-the-world journey over sea and land, through strange places previously unseen by civilized eye. Engh tells the story in a 19th century prose style: (&lsquo;For, as he said, they did not know when they would come to water again; and Repnomar thought this so prudent that she filled the little bailer that dangled always at her belt.&rsquo;) This device is appropriate to the level of civilization on this planet, which resembles life here a century ago.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I></div>

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Wheel of the Winds

<div><B>A third world dictator</B><B> conquers and rules a dystopian America in this &ldquo;wonderful and terrifying&rdquo; work of political science fiction (Samuel R. Delany). </B><BR /><BR /> By the time General Arslan brings his army from Turkistan to America, he has already conquered the rest of the world, using strategy and craft rather than bullets and bloodshed. The modern-day Genghis Khan sets up headquarters in tiny Kraftsville, Illinois, and when he asserts his power by violently assaulting an eighth-grade girl and boy&mdash;onstage, before a cheering audience of his soldiers&mdash;the townspeople know that no one is safe.<BR />  <BR /> Forced to open his home to the despot, Franklin Bond, the school principal whose students were publicly violated, finds himself strangely drawn to the world&rsquo;s new master and privy to his quirks and mental machinations. In fact, only one other person in town will have a closer connection to Arslan during the long, hard era of his reign: Hunt Morgan, the boy the dictator brutalized before the entire town&mdash;and whom he now owns.<BR />  <BR /> But there is a secret side to the human monster that no one, not even Bond or Morgan, sees during these years of terror and enslavement. For Arslan has already set a grander scheme in motion: to save our world . . . by destroying it.<BR />  <BR /> Few works of speculative fiction have been held in higher regard&mdash;or provoked more outraged controversy&mdash;than M. J. Engh&rsquo;s classic science fiction tale of the conquest of America. Brilliant and disturbing, this thought-provoking and surprising novel is an intriguing character study, a dire warning that continues to pack a devastating punch, and &ldquo;without question one of the finest works of fiction of our generation&rdquo; (Orson Scott Card).<BR />  </div>

M. J. Engh
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Wheel of the Winds

Arslan

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