In the year 4004 AD, the entire universe of habitable worlds has
been filled with human beings, thanks to an ancient teleport
network and unlimited growth. Humans live on more than a hundred
quadrillion terraformed planets, all woven into a bureaucratic and
restrictive Empire. VALENCIES tracks a frustrated group of
libertarian anarchists on the marginal planet Victoria. Kael, son
of three gay doctors, and Theri, daughter of a man and woman bound
by maniacal doctrinal tenets, are a young couple in a cosmos of
complacent immortals. Ben and Anla the clone rage and passionately
make up in a cycle of dominance and submission as old as history or
myth. And slipping like a mad trickster between the four is
Catsize, former commander, terrible poet crazed by two millennia of
thwarted revolutions, hilarious prankster, an instigator of
mischief and healer of souls. VALENCIES tells with pathos and humor
a richly detailed portrait of the struggle against an Empire that's
prepared to obliterate an entire world. Brian W. Aldiss said about
this book: "One of the most playful SF novels of recent years."
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