Parsk Elephant Cemetery

Author's name: Lawrence M. Shundar Publisher: Tars for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: A historian talks with the dead, the past entangles him. A child who does not feel pain and who is not supposed to exist in life, has visions of the future. And between this and that, facts that could shake worlds. In the distant future, no humans remain, but the successors of humans thrive throughout the galaxy. And these successors are a brilliant lineage of human animals that have risen to conscious beings who walk and talk. The Fant was one of those species: they are the human-shaped elephants shunned by other races, who have long been exiled to the damp Ghetto world of Barsk. There, they developed properties used by all species today. And the most sought-after of these properties is "Kov," which allows a small number of users to communicate with the recently deceased and learn their secrets. To break the Fant's control over the Kov property, a secret group outside Earth tries to force the Fant to reveal the secret. "Yorl," a Fant who communicates with the dead, is forced to interrogate his close friend who died by suicide years ago under mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile, Yorl uncovers a secret that the powers that be prefer to keep buried forever. In the meantime, disturbing visions drive the son of the deceased friend, a physically disabled young Fant called "Bezlo," to take his first shaky steps toward an uncertain future.