Frederick Kirchhoff

• Nov-2015
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Sixth and final volume in "The Emperor's Library," "The Guardians" is told by three of the main characters introduced in "The Chronophage" -- Nan, Rake, and Lim -- and takes place immediately after the events of that novel. It returns the reader to s...

• Aug-2013
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The setting of The Chronophage shifts from the Empire to Gort, a dictatorship on the far side of the continent. Sixteen-year-old Lim is raped by beach guards and finds himself being nursed back to health in the opulent home of one of the Masters who,...

• Mar-2012
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After the events of The Game, Jon and Sem traveled to Drom and brought back inventions that made Tarnak a wealthy city. Sem is dead, but, thanks to the residual power of their tritargons, both Jon and Klei remain alive, although very old. Jon has bec...

• May-2011
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The Flight from Kar opens The Emperor's Library series with seventeen-year-old Jon's trial and expulsion from the only home he has known, the Valley of Women. In the larger world beyond the Valley, he finds a love that will change his destiny and une...

• May-2011
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The Game, Book Three of The Emperor's Library, takes place twenty years after the events recounted in The Tritargon. When the story opens, Jon is living quietly in Kar, having withdrawn from the heroic stage he once occupied. With Dan, his lover and...

• May-2011
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The Tritargon, Book Two of The Emperor's Library, follows the separate lives of the work's four main characters. Entering the enemy's camp to spread false information, Jon finds himself carried back to Kar and drawn deeply into the inner circle of Th...

This collection of stories, set in Portland, Oregon, explores the intersections of dream and reality, imagination and delusion. The cast of characters includes hotel concierges, cat lovers, a shoe salesman who discovers the portal to a parallel unive...