SEA OF DEKATOS

King Tiger, Kemptville, ON, 2006, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-9781129-0-3.  MMPB, 345 pages.  Illustrated wraps show some edge and cover wear, reading creases, tiny bits of lifting to laminate covering.  Binding sound.  Inscription to prior owner on first page (possibly by one of the authors – can’t tell); remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘The five cities of man surround the Sea of Dekatos.  The ancient city-states are filled with towers, stone pyramids, soaring cat-walks, arching bridges and jade castles.  The bronze age men and women fight, love, battle and conquer amid the splendor of the five massive, sprawling cities.  Char, city of chariots, deploys her army in the nearby desert.  In Yang, where nightly winds blow in gusts of hot sand, they raise an army of heavily armored footmen.  Bowmen of Lau Cing, with copper weapons and bronze chainmail, train to fight even during heavy desert storms.  Formations of swordsmen pour from the pagodas of Hecai while Anshi fields a legion of grim, dedicated female warriors.  The city-states wage constant war until a new enemy threatens.  Blue scaled aquatics rise from the sea, water streaming from their iridescent scales, and the five cities face a new and more terrible enemy.’ (from rear wrap)