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Product: Soup of the Moment: A Tale of BARSK (Tales of Barsk)
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★ Return to the award-winning world of Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard and The Moons of Barsk in this prequel that reveals the true story behind the classic bedtime story of Pholo, the Fant who could fly! ★
In the distant future, the galaxy is filled with the descendants of raised mammals created by the long-forgotten human race. Nearly all of these anthropomorphic peoples are furred, except for the Fant — furless beings with enormous ears and bizarre prehensile trunks — who because of their differences were rounded up centuries ago and relocated to Barsk, a wet world no one else wanted.
But the Fant have adapted and prospered in their isolation, having grown accustomed to the near constant rainfall and making the island rainforests of Barsk their home.
On one of these islands lives Pholo, a young scientist with a radical theory: what if you could harness the power of the storms and use it fly‽
To test her theory she has built a prototype, a transduction engine that appears to work, albeit with a sizable radioactive side effect.
Pholo believes she's solved the problems of flying suit but her lovers — a poet named Bindle and a physician named Gavi — are worried about radiation.
Her great great grandmother is concerned she's making a mistake, and is offering her the family soup business if Pholo will just put all this science foolishness aside.
And her therapist fears that Pholo's obsession with flight is blinding her to the importance of the people in her life who truly love her.
Is Pholo's theory right? Can she succeed in flying? And if so, at what cost?

Product: Excerpts of Jorl ben Tral (Tales of Barsk)
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Jorl ben Tral is a Fant, one of the two species of anthropomorphic elephants that inhabit the island rainforests of the planet Barsk. He's also a Speaker, gifted with the ability to converse with the dead, a talent he uses in his daily life as an historian at the university.

Jorl is a tenured professor of some repute.

His response to the academic adage "publish or perish" has been nothing short of prolific, far too vast to include in any collection.

Now, for the first time, brief excerpts from a selection of this unparalleled scholar's work have been compiled to reveal thought provoking glimpses not only into the life and culture of the Fant, but also the larger galaxy of furred sapients and their seemingly hardwired discrimination that colors both their interactions with their elephantine fellows and their everyday choices.

Set in a distant future of a galaxy that no longer recalls the humanity that spawned it, the writings of Jorl ben Tral nonetheless reveal much about the human condition, as can only be told through the words of this descendant of our ownLoxodonta africana.