Funding now on Kickstarter, Cirsova Publishing is excited to announce that it will be publishing Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords saga in a collected edition for its 50th Anniversary.
Mankind and its empire spanning the Nine Worlds are ruled by a powerful triumvirate of long-lived dreamers: the Dream Lords!
The Dream Lords project a vision of utopia to obfuscate the alien hostility of Zurjah, the world long claimed to be the true seat of humanity. A vision that grows hazy as the power of the Dream Lords wanes. Destroyed by ancient wars, Earth has become a backwater prison colony, and its native inhabitants are called "Barbarian" and enslaved to perpetuate a myth that Mankind came from the stars.
Galad Sarian, son and heir of one of the Dream Lords, discovers not only the truth behind the crumbling Zurjahn empire and faltering of the powers that maintain humanity's grasp on alien worlds but also a plot by Daras Vorta, the Warden of Earth, to overthrow the Dream Lords with the aid of demonic forces.
The Dream Lords represented Adrian Cole’s debut in his long and incredibly prolific career in science fiction and fantasy. The Dream Lords was originally published in single volume format through Zebra Books, with “A Plague of Nightmares” and “Lord of Nightmares” appearing in 1975 and the finale, “Bane of Nightmares,” released in 1976. This new edition collects all three Dream Lords novels in omnibus for the first time, revised and with new foreword to the series.
Cirsova Publishing has been publishing Adrian Cole’s new Dream Lords in its flagship magazine since 2016, and this anniversary omnibus will precede Dream Lords: Legacy, a first-ever collection of this new material.
The Dream Lords 50th Anniversary Omnibus will be available in both hardcover and paperback through Kickstarter. Campaign launched on October 1st, 2024, and ends November 1st. Retail release is forthcoming.
Adrian Cole has had some thirty novels and numerous shorts published, including eBooks and audiobooks, for nearly fifty years, writing science fiction, fantasy and horror. NICK NIGHTMARE INVESTIGATES won the prestigious British Fantasy Society Award for Best Collection (2015). His fantasy quartet, THE OMARAN SAGA was well-received in both the UK and US. His most recent work, an alternative Romano/Celtic trilogy, WAR ON ROME, is currently being printed in the US.
Cirsova Publishing began in 2016, launching its flagship quarterly fantasy magazine, which has published over 30 issues. They are also known for publishing Michael Tierney's Wild Stars science fantasy saga, Mongoose and Meerkat and other works by Jim Breyfogle, and the strange fiction of Misha Burnett. Earlier in 2024, Cirsova Publishing released JD Cowan's Star Wanderers and Jim Breyfogle's A Bad Case of Dead.
For inquiries and advanced copy requests: cirsova@yahoo.com