Ink: The Book of All Hours-Fast Shipping

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Hal Duncan shattered the boundaries betweengenres with his stunning debut novel, Vellum, which shocked with the boldness of its ideas,seduced with the sensual beauty of its prose, and astonished with its imaginativesweep. Now Duncan returns with another epic tour de force that surpasses all expectations.

Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were in a moment of brutal transfiguration, they became unkin, beings who possessedthe power to alter reality by accessing the Vellum: a realm of eternity containingevery possibility, every paradox, every heaven . . . and every hell. The Vellum becamea battleground where forces of order and chaos fought across time and space. Theultimate weapon in that bloody war spanning through history and myth, dreams andmemory, was The Book of All Hours, a legendary tome within which the blueprint forall reality is inscribed, a volume long lost amid the infinite folds of the Vellum.

Until, in 2017, it was found by Reynard Carter, a young man with the blood of unkinin his veins.

Until Phreedom Messenger and her brother, Thomas, were swept up inan archetypal dance of death and rebirth.

Until a hermit named Seamus Finnan foundthe courage to re-forge his broken soul, and a self-proclaimed angel called Metatronunleashed a plague of AI bitmites.

Now, in the aftermath of the apocalypse, severalsurvivors search desperately for the remnants of themselves scattered across theVellum like torn pages, determined to use the blood of the unkin to rewrite The Bookof All Hours, and to forge a new destiny for themselves and all humanity. Realitywill never be the same.