Shards of a Jealous Sky: A Sequel to Bright Islands in a Dark Sea

by L. Warren Douglas

Never before in print. Now, finally, you can find out what happens after Bright Islands in a Dark Sea! After centuries of domination by the alien Ferosin, Earth's humans at last challenge them--and the stakes are in the short run, the Earth, and ultimately, the universe itself! It is an Earth reverted to oxcarts, oars, and sails (higher technology is forbidden by the alien ferosin who rule secretly from behind the façade of a worldwide Church.) The tale begins with an archaeological expedition to the far north of a flooded North American continent, a land populated by bear-worshiping savages, and the wreck of an alien ship stolen by the ancestors of mutated humans, the Witches of Ararat, who once held the secret to the gestalt that was…a starship pilot. Yan Bando, reluctant tool of the crones of Ararat, is an antiquarian; he is husband of an apprentice witch, lover of a crazy scientist and of a mysterious plainswoman from a buried city in the western mountains. It’s an adventurous life for a quiet archaeologist, even one who has been known to swing a battleaxe from time to time…

398 pages, Paperback

Published March 7, 2018

About the author

Born November 3, 1943, Douglas's earliest memories are of a military air show on V-E Day in 1946 or 1947. He attended Sigsbee School in Grand Rapids, MI, where he distinguished himself as a distance runner and a Cub Scout. His favorite hobby was a collection of Devonian and Silurian fossils. Douglas attended Ottawa Junior High in Grand Rapids for 2 years, then the prestigious Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, MI (often called "the Phillips Academy of the Midwest"). He is reticent about his expulsion from Cranbrook, but it may have had something to do with a black eye sported by the scion of a Major Corporate Family, or with an unseemly incident in a nearby college's womens' dormitory. He graduated in 1962 from the Leelanau School (often called the Cranbrook of the North Woods) a few miles from the Sleeping Bear Dunes in Glen Arbor, MI, winning honors in History, Poetry, English, and Art. At Leelanau he became an inveterate backwoods skier, and his love of woods and wilderness is reflected in his fiction.
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