Salamanders of the Silk Road, by Preston John With his apprentice

With his apprentice

fantasy and subtle human analyses with poetry and humor: Imagine Charles Baudelaire and Hans Christian Anderson having a beer with Frederic Brown at Edgar Allen Poe’s house

the couple must reconcile their growing feelings for each other

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on the nearby planet Draman

Salamanders of the Silk Road, by Preston John With his apprenticePrester John is a legend. He's a relic of medieval folklore, a character from a series of garbled tales that span eras and continents like an epic game of telephone. He inhabits a world stuffed full of Cyclopes and malevolent rivers, rocs and gryphons and sciapods and salamanders. Now, he's an unemployed surreal estate agent headed down to a mildew infested beach house off the coast of Florida, where he can brood over his past and seek a way out of