Blades of the Oikoumene

Diego Peral is a modest fencing teacher. The son of a famous playwright, and in the past a soldier, Don Diego is indifferent to the cosmic temptations of the Oikumene. His fate, it seemed, was a rapier and a dagger—feints and defense. But life makes the maestro turn sharply, resembling the plays of his older Peral: love, passion, the young daughter of the grandee Escalon—and now his native planet is already behind him.

The maestro doesn’t know that, like a fly, he has landed in the very center of a web of inter-racial intrigue. The escape method he chooses is considered impossible by the learned men of the Oikumene. That evil spirits forced him to pay for love with the saving of his soul. Is Diego Peral really as mistaken as the “civilized” Oikumene thinks? Alди’s new book is another plunge for the reader into the fantastic worlds of the Oikumene.