The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic

The world is re-enchanted. The sacred returns. And so does ex-angel Robert Hunger to the west coast streets of Terminal City. There to witness the great sorting mix of atheism, evolution, the Christian supernatural, European paganism and indigenous culture at the end of our epoch. Who will triumph? Who will falter? Or will a new synthesis prevail as one age turns to another…

The literary perspective disappears. The novel declines. Only the epic is left standing to bear our culture, and tell the total stories all crave and require. Only the epic can hold the universal whole. And in The Saga of Terminal City, you will find seven—seven complete epics collected here for the first time, along with all supporting indexes and appendices. A truly uncompromising collection to challenge our return to printless barbarity…

Pray for the city, so that it might go well for you. Such is the wisdom of exiles. This Saga is that prayer, and those exiles are Robert Hunger and his Poor Shepherds, tirelessly toiling to hasten what will be. There among the misfits and the monsters, the rulers and the ruled, the angels and their adversaries, the created and creationless, they prepare for that day when to Terminal City all of us at last come home. Like the new Jerusalem, in it we are reborn.

Bio

His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Kingsville, Ontario. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.