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R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and listeners, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets.

Long Wu Ying, der für eine Zeitlang aus der Sekte des Sattgrünen Wassers verbannt wurde, muss sich seinen Weg durch die Welt schlagen, nach der Bedeutung seiner Existenz und letztendlich nach seinem Dao suchen. Seine Körperkultivationstechnik eröffent ihm einen Weg und wird Wu Ying bis an die Grenzen des Königreichs der Mitte führen, wenn er ihm folgt.

Gerbert was a farmer's son in an obscure town in France, but his gifts of mind and intellect were so remarkable that even in the feudal world of the tenth century, he could rise far above his station. Princes and prelates courted him; emperors called him friend and teacher. He brought the lost art of mathematics back into Europe; he was an astronomer, a musician, a builder of strange and wonderful devices. In the end he reached the pinnacle of the world, a seat so lofty and an authority so great that he answered only to God Himself. But Gerbert was more than a simple professor of the mathematical arts, or even a prince of the Church.