Pre-Owned Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (Hardcover) by Lawrence M Schoen

from Shrike58

In a galactic culture of creatures that Humanity uplifted to sentience before we faded away, Barsk is both the sole source of a narcotic that allows psychic adepts to speak to the traces of personality left behind by the dead and the home of the uplifted elephants; beings who are deeply disliked ...

from TheDivineOomba

This is a book that had themes that seemed from science fiction during the 90's - this isn't a bad thing, but it felt a bit surreal. The story is really quite well done, the different civilizations of animals were interesting. When we got to the psychic powers and the nefshons (particles that hol...

from RossWhippo

An entirely original world is brought to life in this engaging read. Just the right mix of talking animals, space travel, and mysterious culture.

from PardaMustang

**I purchased a copy of this book for my own enjoyment.** Welcome to the richly complex world of Barsk, home to the Fant. It is a lush world of jungle archipelagos, where the arboreal inhabitants live high above the shadowed forest floor. The Fant, divided into the slightly different Lox and Elep...

from Noeshia

This was the best of my holiday reads, and not just because I'm a furry. I know this because it took me exactly two days to finish it and then I dreamed about it. I listened to the audio version, of course. If you ask me the story is more fantasy than sci-fi, like a fantasy that wore a sci-fi jac...