What Dreamers Be These Rocks

About the Book

This first book of a three book series begins a fantasy very loosely based on the Gilgamesh epic.

Question: what's a nice hermaphrodite like Longren doing in a myth like this? Funny you should ask...

In fleeing his own mortality, he got himself trapped in a quest for the Tree of Life. Now he's lost in an alternate universe thanks to his friend, a helpful disaster named Flet. Longren's biggest problem has been getting used to the idea that two-person sex could be "normal." Having a boy named Matthew and a young woman named Samantha along for the ride keep him facing the problem. But the little things -- ah, that's what put the camel in traction:

-- in this universe, the world is flat, not round.

-- the oceans are light years across

-- the sky is blue plastic and the stars are screw-in light bulbs.

-- the Aztecs are performing human sacrifices in St. Louis.

-- demons are out to get him

Longren had been a perfectly content astronomer teaching at the university on Alandra. When his best friend died, Flet showed up and nothing's been quite right since.

About the Author

R.P. Nettelhorst was born in Ohio in 1957. He finished an MA at UCLA in Semitic languages in 1983. Currently, he serves as Academic Vice President of Quartz Hill School of Theology. Married, with three daughters, he lives in Lancaster, California.