Flamesong — M.A.R. Barker

TEKUMEL!

Tekumel is a world distant in time and space, populated by both humans and a dozen alien races, and whose dominant empire is that of the Petal Throne. Tekumel is a world more detailed than even Tolkien's Middle Earth and Herbert's Dune, which has been the basis for games-players for a dozen years. At last the chronicles of that wondrous world are opened to disclose the astounding adventures of the men and women of the Empire and those who opposed them.

Flamesong is the adventure-packed and suspense-filled novel of a commander of the Petal Throne and what occurred when he captured a high-ranking woman of the enemy--who was in possession of a weapon from the forgotten ages of the past. Isolated in the uncharted subterranean speedways of the past, they are forced to travel together to unknown lands and undiscovered monster species...taking with them the means of their mutually exclusive rewards.