To fight the gods-you must first become a slave. Our universe is dead. All that's left are memories. But the powers indigenous to the new world are fighting back. Alexander, a handsome immigrant fleeing trouble in his poor native land, doesn't even have a claim to his own name in the magic-rich city of Norio, where they call him Aleixo. But his name may be the least of what the sorcerers of Norio take from him, when a seemingly random invitation to cater-waiter at a party of the wealthy and famous sweeps Aleixo up into a maelstrom of imperial politics and a millennia-long war between humans and gods. The empire of Norio rules the world because of its monopoly on magical high-tech devices called dream-slaves-and now the head of imperial intelligence has proof that Aleixo isn't human at all, but a dream-slave assassin, smuggled into Norio by the empire's enemies. Rescued by a cabal of sorcerers from a foiled attempt to kill him by a renegade sorcerer, Salvador, and his mysterious other-human ally Ydris, Aleixo finds his identity and humanity stripped from him in harrowing psychedelic adventures that transform his memories and bind him to a history of conflict, activating fabulous abilities he never dreamed he had. The world Aleixo lives in isn't what he's always believed it was: the forces that rule his destiny are not just economic class, race, gender, sexuality, body, nationality-they are much more sinister, and much more powerful. The greatest powers have secretly colonized his planet, |