The Cracks in the Aether: The Hypatomancer's Tale, Book One

by Robert Reginald

“HELP ME!” With these simple words is triggered an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping jaunt through the multiverses that comprise the cosmos of Morpheus, Scanner Prime to Her Puissant and Sublime Majesty, Queen Eveteria of Korynthia in Nova Europa. Faced with the inevitable consequences of his prescient visions of doom and collapse, not only for his own country, but for all of the civilized world, Morpheús must attempt the to somehow rescue the greater whole and restore stability to the cosmos by finding and saving a single prisoner hidden in an impenetrable cell somewhere on one of the infinity of alternate earths in the six known circles of the Otherworlds. Accompanied by his faithful wherret, Scooter, and ultimately by a band of loyal cutthroats and adventurers, Morpheús prepares to embark on a quest that will whisk him from world to world. “Reginald tackles this tale—one of twelve in the massive Nova Europa Sequence—with all of the energy and imagination and wit that characterizes his best writing. Every piece of The Cracks in the Æther lends greater depth and accessibility to the whole. With its two companion novels, The Pachyderms’ Lament and The Fourth Elephant’s Egg, The Cracks in the Æther constitutes a contemporary comic epic in prose, an extravagant Odyssey to the farthest reaches of the imagination—and then home again to touch the essentials of the human heart.”—Michael R. Collings.

250 pages, Paperback

First published April 24, 2011