In the Penultimate Age of the Archonate, callow young fop Filidor Vesh is perfectly content to spend his days in the pursuit of shallow amusements, until he is summoned by a wizened old dwarf in need of a voluntary good deed - deliver a parcel to his uncle, the all -powerful and original 98th Archon, sole ruler of the world. So begins Filidor's reluctant odyssey through peculiar provinces peopled with odious denizens, including such road killers as mutant rodents, alien ants and a vengeful thamaturge. Now in terra incognito, his narrow conception of life shaken to the extreme, Filidor will strive to say and do the right things...and grow up in the process.
- ISBN10 0446609234
- ISBN13 9780446609234
- Publish Date 1 March 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 December 2002
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Warner Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English