Matthew Hughes - Hespira (epub)[j_ray]

THE TALES OF HENGHIS HAPTHORN Henghis Hapthorn is the foremost
penetrator of mysteries and uncoverer of secrets in a decadent,
far-future Old Earth, one age before Jack Vance's Dying Earth. A superb
rationalist, he has long disdained the notion that the universe has an
alternative organizing principle: magic. But now a new age is dawning,
overturning the very foundations of Hapthorn's existence, and he must
struggle to survive in a world where all the rules are changing. HESPIRA
Hapthorn decides to leave Old Earth, seeking to solve the mystery of
Hespira, an ungainly off-world woman who has lost her memory. The
investigation takes him down The Spray to the rank-obsessed world of
Ikkibal and the rustic Shannery, where he unravels Hespira's role in a
deadly feud between aristocrats. But behind the scenes an unseen
antagonist is plotting the discriminator's destruction.

Title: Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn
Series: Tales of Henghis Hapthorn
Author: Matthew Hughes
Published: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN-10: 1927880033
ISBN-13: 978-1927880036
Length: 266 pages