During March, 2001, junior high school teacher Taharqa "Harq" Douglass discovered two life-altering realities: that his foreign doctor friend Sayntomush Binipythago "Thago" Barabdura was in fact a Suftem Warmunk from a solar systemic civilisation of Numans entirely unknown to the people of Earth, and that Harq himself possessed chronosis, the ability to behold the future.

Dragged into a virtual suicide mission to rescue the Numan princess Azir Schtagfayar Utto, upon whose fate depended millions of people, Thago and Harq stormed the Diefenbunker in southern Alberta, liberated their target from her kidnappers, and then escaped into orbit, only to have Thago's vessel destroyed by terrorist reinforcements.

After killing the attackers and then commandeering the doomed Soviet space station Mir, Harq, the Princess, Thago, and Thago's sullen Human assistant Saynkandake MarAset Shanadakhete made their way to a safehouse on Venus, known to Numans as planet Tluwitl, "the bordello of the solar system." There, Thago's team emancipated an enslaved, mysterious, traumatised, and dangerous Human boy named Ooropos Poldleol-nim Kikotijototitl, nicknamed Ti-Joto, before the Princess revealed her true nature and traumatised Harq, perhaps permanently.

Arriving on Qorodis, the political-economic centre of the System, Thago enrolled Harq and Ti-Joto in the Suftem Assembly to train as Chronostics and ascend to what Thago claimed was their fate: to be the ultimate Seers who would discover the means to destroy all evil, reshape all civilisation, and reveal the nature, origin, and destiny of the universe.

But not even the Chronostics foresaw the terrorist attack that turned the cosmopolis of Naayt into an inferno, nor the security sweep that put Humans by the tens of thousands, including Harq and Ti-Joto, into a secret "white hole" prison, where not even Thago could find them, and simple survival is an open question....

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SHEREM IS BRILLIANT.
She's travelled the world. She speaks a dozen ancient and modern languages, including Fan-Girl. And she can use-or improvise-a hundred weapons from around the globe or of her own design. Quite the list of accomplishments for a 25 year old.
Or is that 2500?
When best friend/roomies Hamza and Yehat, two Gen-X brainiacs too smart for their own good, meet Sherem during the heat of summer, they take one look at her and expect sparks to fly.
They just don't expect the inferno.
Minister Faust's first foray into astonishing adventure, pop culture craziness, and Africentric awe, "The Coyote Kings, Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad" is already a cult classic that had readers, critics, and even Hollywood fluttering with excitement.
FINALIST:
The Philip K. Dick Award (2004) The Locus Best First Novel Award (2004) The Compton-Crook Award (2004)
A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2004 FOR:
January Magazine, fiction Barnes & Noble, SF&F Amazon.com, SF&F SF Site, SF&F, Editor's Choice
A LOCUS NOTABLE BOOK
Praise for " The Coyote Kings, Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad"
ERNEST DICKERSON, director, The Walking Dead, The Wire, Never Die Alone: "Samuel Delaney, Harlan Ellison and Ishmael Reed all rolled into one. Biting, insightful and hugely entertaining." THE NEW YORK TIMES: "Fresh and stylish entertainment." KIRKUS REVIEWS, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: "Like Kevin Smith as if he'd grown up in an African immigrant neighbourhood." ROBERT J. SAWYER, author of Hominids: "Unforgettable... infectious ... incredibly charming." RICHARD MORGAN, author of Market Forces: "Outstanding ... like nothing I've ever read in the genre ... Up there with the best of them." CHARLES SAUNDERS, author of Imaro: "A brilliant first novel..... Minister Faust... is shaping up to become a one-man New Wave in the SF genre." NALO HOPKINSON, author of Brown Girl in the Ring: "Off the freakin hook." TANANARIVE DUE, author of The Living Blood: "Incredibly imaginative ... Endlessly entertaining." SHEREE THOMAS, editor of Dark Matter: "Outrageously hilarious and horrifying by turns." COREY REDEKOP, author of Shelf Monkey: "I loved every moment of it." BOOKLIST Starred Review]: "A fantastic contemporary adventure." THE NATIONAL POST: "The most exciting Canadian debut in decades." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Will remind some readers of Neal Stephenson ... a sharp-edged new voice in the genre." JANUARY MAGAZINE: "Alternately laugh-out-loud funny, deeply tender and downright chilling... A first rate novel from all angles." ASIMOV MAGAZINE: "Defies all expectations.... Faust is obviously someone to watch." THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE: "As if Faust channelled Mark Twain to write a Neal Stephenson novel.... Explodes off the page." THE DENVER POST: "Razzle-dazzle style and attitude...." THE MONTREAL GAZETTE: "Every page is pure pleasure." SCI-FI DIMENSIONS: "If Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, William S. Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft were to collaborate on a novel, the result might be The Coyote Kings." SF SITE: "Undoubtedly the most fun, entertaining novel of this year in science fiction..."

Taharqa "Harq" Douglass assumes that his best friend Thago is nothing more than a muckle-mouthed immigrant doctor from Sudan (or is it Somalia? or Yemen?). But when high-tech terrorists blast into Thago's office, Harq accidentally discovers his friend is half James Bond and half Bruce Lee, and that he himself possesses a miraculous ability: chronosis-the power to behold the future. With Thago as his protector, Harq must use his startling power to rescue a beautiful, brilliant diplomat in order to stop a war that could claim millions of lives... and the only path to survival lies through the doomed Soviet space station, Mir. See the book trailer: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEemS9D1pt8&list=UU6go_MWgaiuR7E8Fp5jJ0fQ&index=1