Utopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest: 40th Anniversary Revised Edition

His multicultural viewpoint may yet give us the best SF novel of all time -- AnalogFor twenty thousand years the godlike Inquestors have held sway over the one million worlds of the Dispersal of Man. S.P. Somtows limitless imagination has created a universe of breathtaking majesty amazing beauty and shattering cruelty. In games of makrugh played in elegant floating palaces planets are destroyed or saved to preserve the balance of the galaxy. Exotic languages and customs servocorpses tachyon bubbles childsolders with implanted laser-irises people bins that hold populations of entire planets delphinoid ships that sail the overcosm utopias that must be hunted down and destroyed in the name of the High Compassion thinkhives that connect the galaxy via the space between spaces ...All this must end. And end it does in what Theodore Sturgeon has described as the greatest magnitude of color and spectacle since Stapledon.For the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the first Inquestor story in Analog Diplodocus Press is bringing back revised editions of all four of the original Chronicles of the High Inquest -- and releasing a fifth volume Homeworld of the Heart. he can create a world with less apparent effort than some writers devote to creating a small room ... yet these tales are intricately wrought as those handcarved oriental balls within balls-- The Washington Posthis dense poetic prose is as unique as his name-- Los Angeles TimesOne of SFs formidable talents!--Publishers Weekly