A God in Hiding, an Epic New Fantasy by Matthew Hughes

 

A God InHiding

 

 A new epic fantasy by critically acclaimednovelist, Matthew Hughes

 

The book is now available in e-format in North America

In a far-future world of wizards and walledcities, Lieve Reder has risen from being a small chandler’s daughter to becomethe captain of a riverboat owned by House Bernaglio in the oligarch-run city ofExley. She has ambitions to rise higher and when her employer, the widowPhilaria Bernaglio, asks her to travel to the remote desert town of Ur Nazim toretrieve a mysterious item her dead husband, Nulf Bernaglio ordered, she signson to the quest. 

Accompanied by Dai, an artificial human createdby one of the mad thaumaturges of Olliphract to be part of the wizards’ deadlywar games, she sets out on the perilous

 

One challenge leads to another, leading Reder toembark on an even more dangerous quest, to the far northern rim of the worldwhere she must awaken a powerful godlet that just wants to be left to dream inpeace.

Along the way, she must contend with theassassins’ guild, secret agents of the Duke of Vanderoy, corruptible officials,a pair of quarreling, elderly wizard brothers, an ensorcelled flying reptile,ogres, cannibal weremen, and a surprise visitor who has the power to upend allof Phenomenality.

Through it all, Reder keeps her eyes on theprize: to move up in the world and make her own destiny. 

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Praise forMatthew Hughes: 

“I really enjoyed Barbarians of the Beyond.Matthew Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone except Jack himself.”  — George R. R. Martin 

“Lock the door, turn off the phone, get into a comfychair, and deep-dive into a marvelous continuation of Jack Vance's DemonPrinces series. Matthew Hughes is a treasure and Barbariansof the Beyond is a terrific adventure.”  — David Gerrold

“Matthew Hughes follows nimbly in Jack Vance'sfootprints, then breaks some fresh trail. First-class space opera.”— RobertJ. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids

“Engaging and enchanting…a fine companion adventure toJack Vance’s The Demon Princes series, told with Matthew Hughes’s excellentsense of charm, ethical complexity and exotic worldbuilding. Let’s hope this isjust the beginning!” — Kurt Busiek

“Barbarians of theBeyond is just plain old-fashioned space opera fun with arelatable heroine who is sometimes fallible, rather than some Shaolin Templekung fu megamaster. I enjoyed it a lot.”
— Glen Cook

“…a tale that captures that special ‘golden age’ feel inwhich mankind has travelled far into the stars yet still behaves as though it’sthe Wild West.” — David White, RNR Magazine

 

About Matthew:

MatthewHughes is a Canadian author of science fiction and fantasy.

Hisspeculative fiction novels are: FoolsErrant, Fool Me Twice, Black Brillion, Majestrum,The Commons, The Spiral Labyrinth,Template, Hespira, The Other, TheDamned Busters, Costume NotIncluded, Hell to Pay, Song of theSerpent and Wolverine: Lifeblood (bothas Hugh Matthews), A Wizard’s Henchman, AGod in Chains, Baldemar, and Passengers& Perils. 

Hismagnum opus is What the Wind Brings,a historical novel with magical realism elements.  It was the first Canadian work to win theinternational Endeavour Award.  He waitedmore than forty years to write the novel, and spent a year composing severaldrafts, made possible by a $25,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Hismajor influence as a writer of speculative fiction is the Grandmaster JackVance.  Booklist has called HughesVance’s “heir apparent.”

In2021, Vance’s estate (Spatterlight Press), published Hughes’s Barbarians of the Beyond, an authorizedcompanion novel to Vance’s iconic revenge series, The Demon Princes.  The book promptedGeorge R.R. Martin to say, “Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone exceptJack himself.”

Hisshort fiction has appeared in Asimov’s,Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Pulp Literature, Postscripts,Storyteller, Interzone, Amazing,Unfit, and several anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R.Martin, including the bestseller, Rogues.   

Hisworks have been short-listed for the Aurora, Locus, Nebula, Philip K Dick, A.E.Van Vogt, Neffy, Alberta Book Publishing, and Endeavour Awards. 

In2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and FantasyAssociation’s Hall of Fame.

Beforeturning to writing fiction, he spent three decades as the top-rankedspeechwriter in British Columbia, writing for leaders of all three provincialpolitical parties and CEOs of the province’s largest corporations.

Since2007, he has traveled the world as a housesitter, living in twelve countries.

More information about him can be found at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hughes_(writer) 

Torequest additional review copies or an interview with Matthew Hughes, pleasecontact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity:mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.   We look forward to the coverage!