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The Wind Whales of Ishmael

Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth—an Earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared.

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Here too there are whales to hunt—but whales that soar through a dark blue sky....

Hugo Award-winner Philip Jose Farmer has spun a fascinating tale of whaling ships and seamen of the sky in a bizarre future world where there are no seas to sail and no safe harbor to call home....

Audience
adult
Length
short · 130 pages

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