num_pages: 426
description: In the far-distant future a flooded and shattered Earth is governed by the iron hand of the Martian Matriarchy. Martian warrior Dreams-of-War is not pleased to be dispatched to Earth to guard a young girl called Lunae from an unknown threat. The clone of an extraordinary heritage, Lunae ages with unnatural speed and has the special talent of being able to alter time.Having arrived at the half-ruined city of Fragrant Harbour where Lunae lives with her malignant grandmothers and a member of the genetically modified race known as the kappa, Dreams-of-War encounters a host of intrigues centring on the sinister presence of an alien mission station nearby. When her protege is nearly assassinated, the Martian warrior is forced to flee with Lunae to the flooded northern islands of what was once Japan. But then the child and the kappa go missing en route, leaving Dreams-of-War determined to return to the plains of Mars in order to discover the truth about Martian rule over Earth, and the nature of the intrigues behind it...
language: English
title: Banner of Souls
titlecomplete: Banner of Souls
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy
ratings_count: 239
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Pan MacMillan