Author: Jan Lars Jensen
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 405
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0330392379
Description
Backdrop of this class fiction is not the India of some bygone era - but a magical period in the distant future, when demons and deities again roam on the earth. Two strangers set out across the vast subcontinent in quest for very separate destinies. One is Rakesh, relentlessly drive by his self-appointed duty to kill the heroic Baboon Warrior. The other, Vasant, is the royal engineer mysteriously abducted and set adrift in a rudderless airship. As they commence their quarrelsome journey across a turbulent landscape, their fate becomes even more uncertain when the Sovereign in faraway Delhi is murdered - reputedly by the First Wife. On the way they encounter the awesome Jagannath, rolling over cities in its unstoppable chariot. . the serpentine Naga in her underground caverns.. monks residing in a carved-out mountain fortress .. a white -feathered army of demon cranes obsessed with the eternal harmony of numbers.
This is marvelously colorful dreamscape filled with animated god-machines, balloons of purple silk floating over the forests, six-armed invaders plummeting from the sky - an epic of multitudi8nous characters and creatures summoned from a rich and diverse imagination.
MEDIA COMMENTS:
Projecting exotic, multifaceted India into the far future, Jensen whirls readers off on a colorfully surreal series of peculiar adventures.- Publishers Weekly
Jensen's sly and colorful tale is told with intelligence, vigor and wit.- Washington Post
Written with breathtaking flair. - Publishing News
Shiva 3000 is a class science fiction. well written and intelligent, read it.- SFX
Jensen's imagination never flags in its vivid surrealism, as the most amazing gods and events leap from the virtual-reality factory of his brain.- Kirkus Reviews
Jensen whirls readers off on a colorfully surreal series of peculiar adventures. - Publishers Weekly