The Sea-Leopard wasn't as busy or as crowded now: the sails on the three towering masts were furled as she lay at anchor, and all the extra personnel plus the liberty party were ashore.

It had also been packed to the gunwales with double its normal complement on the trip across from Montival, nearly seven hundred souls, since there weren't enough transports to spare the warships. The planks beneath her feet were the quarterdeck of the frigate RMN Sea-Leopard, pride of the Royal Montivallan Navy and new-built in the Astoria yards eighteen hundred tons of Douglas fir and Garry oak and Sitka spruce, cordage and sailcloth and copper sheathing and brass and steel salvaged from the dead cities, at nearly three hundred feet from bowsprit to rudder the most powerful warship afloat in the Pacific.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Ĭrown Princess�rlaith Arminger Mackenzie looked south and shoreward towards the Hawaiian capital of Hilo, shading her eyes with a hand.

But more than weapons or even the dark magic of the sorcerers of Pyongyang threaten them �rlaith's lover, Alan Thurston, might be more than he appears.įrom the tropical waters off Hilo and Pearl Harbor, to the jungles and lost cities of the Ceram Sea, a game will be played where the fate of the world is at stake. Meanwhile, across the sea, Japanese Empress Reiko and �rlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of Montival, muster their kingdoms for war, making common cause with the reborn Kingdom of Hawaii. Prince John's motley band of friends and followers-headed by Captain Pip of Townsville and Deor Godulfson-must lead a quest through realms of shadow and dreams to rescue Prince John from a threat far worse than death. The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess �rlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yellow Raja and his servant, the Pallid Mask. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one. Stirling's Novels of the Change are a truly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society.

The Sea Peoples by S.M. Stirling