Cluster · Book 3
Kirlian Quest
- Published
- 1 January 1978
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780586048399
- Type
- novel
About this book
Kirlian Quest, also published in 1978 -- Anthony's second Cluster release that year -- runs 336 pages and continues the Kirlian-transfer premise's exploration of alien biology and identity across new bodies and species.
Its place in Cluster
Kirlian Quest is book 3 in the Cluster series. It follows Chaining the Lady. It is followed by Thousandstar. See the full Cluster reading order.
In the Cluster universe, a person's life force — their Kirlian aura — can be transferred across interstellar distances into another body, human or alien, letting a single consciousness inhabit wildly different physical forms and even species over the course of one adventure. Flint of Outworld, a young man from a backward human colony, is recruited by a dying interstellar civilization to travel this way through a hundred-world galactic cluster, occupying alien bodies to broker alliances and fight covert wars…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780586048399