Valencies · A Science Fiction Novel

In the year 4004 AD, the entire universe of habitable worlds has been filled

with human beings, thanks to an ancient teleport network and unlimited growth.

Humans live on more than a hundred quadrillion terraformed planets, all woven

into a bureaucratic and restrictive Empire. VALENCIES tracks a frustrated

group of libertarian anarchists on the marginal planet Victoria. Kael, son of

three gay doctors, and Theri, daughter of a man and woman bound by maniacal

doctrinal tenets, are a young couple in a cosmos of complacent immortals.

Ben and Anla the clone rage and passionately make up in a cycle of dominance

and submission as old as history or myth. And slipping like a mad trickster

between the four is Catsize, former commander, terrible poet crazed by two

millennia of thwarted revolutions, hilarious prankster, an instigator of

mischief and healer of souls.

VALENCIES tells with pathos and humor a richly detailed portrait of the

struggle against an Empire that's prepared to obliterate an entire world.

Brian W. Aldiss said about this book: "One of the most playful SF novels of

recent years."