The Last Hawk is a 1997 science fiction novel by Catherine Asaro. The novel is an installment in the Saga of the Skolian Empire series. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1998.
The novel details the life of Kelricson Garlin Valdoria Skolia during his eighteen years of imprisonment on the planet Coba.
The novel opens with Kelric crash landing on the planet Coba. An ancient culture with similarities to the Raylicans, Coba is on...
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The Last Hawk is a 1997 science fiction novel by Catherine Asaro. The novel is an installment in the Saga of the Skolian Empire series. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1998.
The novel details the life of Kelricson Garlin Valdoria Skolia during his eighteen years of imprisonment on the planet Coba.
The novel opens with Kelric crash landing on the planet Coba. An ancient culture with similarities to the Raylicans, Coba is one of the many isolated and forgotten planets of the former Ruby Empire. Kelric makes several unsuccessful attempts to escape and eventually ends up in jail. It is there he spends his time (particularly while in isolation) learning the dice game Quis.
Eventually, Kelric is released and joins one of the "estates" - small matriarchical provinces or city-states that compromise the population of Coba. These estates have special dedicated communes that exclusively play Quis, called Calanya. Kelric becomes a member of one of these communes, known as...
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