When can I go on Ossayu??
D.J. “Unseen” Horizons
Although Ahmenar’s ossayu is his personal journey, it is one we all can relate to, male or female, because he undertakes the journey that deep down we all wish we could. Author Stuart Malin has pulled together a half dozen different genres to forge something entirely new. Though he credits the story to K’me K’ea, an interesting question in its own right, it is a question the answer of which doesn't matter because the results are striking:
- The story of Ahmenar is an entertaining work that will capture your attention, yet is suffused with deeper meaning for those who care to pursue this.
- It is a story that raises intriguing questions but these resonate as personally relevant because what happens to Ahmenar comes to matter to us not because we're interested, but because he matters to us..
- The story takes place in a speculative setting that isn't a pining reveries for some mythical (and irrelevant) past, but a utopian landscape with a horrifying past of its own -- one that could be a lesson about our future;
- It is a work that spans volumes in a substantive and pleasing way, not like the striving sequals to which we've become immune because they innevitably fail to maintain the magic of their beginning.
The Ossayu of Ahmenar Ishtam might be the first myth of the 21st Century.
-- Saul Jackson, LA Literary Revival
