Book description
It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human
gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the
vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a
draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom,
it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or
diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of
Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle, and where the easy
rhetoric of Good and Evil, Order versus Chaos just doesn't apply. Here
there are no heroes, no darlings of destiny struggling to save the day,
and there are no villains, no dark lords of evil out to destroy the
world. Or at least if there are, it's not quite clear which is which.
Here, the most ancient gods and the most modern humans are equally
fate's fools, victims of their own hubris, struggling to save their own
skins, their own souls, but sometimes . . . just sometimes . . .
sacrificing everything in the name of humanity.
"Vellum
is a mind-blowing read that's genuinely like nothing you've ever read
before. . . The imaginary worlds that he dreams up are stunning. . . Vellum
has expanded fantasy's limits like nothing published in years." SFX
Hal Duncan lives in Glasgow, and this is his first full-length novel.
