A runaway, a deserter, the Son of the Wind — Натху Сандерсон managed to outwit highbrow experts and seasoned intelligence officers. The phenomenon hid within a phenomenon: a child of discord — in the Sarkophag, an impregnable bastion of bygone times. Three mighty civilizations — the ascetic bramaine, the wolves of Great Pompeii, and the enlightened Largitas — stumbled in pursuit. Allies and enemies alike, they search for everything at once: a miracle boy, scapegoats, and the slightest pretext for war. Free Oikumene and the prison-Sarkophag are united by the main thing: wherever you are, your life is not worth an egg.
“Prodigal Son” is the fifth novel of the Oikumene epic, long deserved attention and love from readers. “Cosmic Symphony” was written by G. L. Oldi ten years ago, and in “one distant galaxy” a year goes for two — not in vain does the new novel have the subtitle “Oikumene: Twenty Years Later.”
What next? The universe will never be the same again.