Park's Starbridge Chronicles are an amazing example of literary science Fiction. The fictional world is as rich as Dune with its detailed culture and religion. The society has an extremely maladaptive caste system in which children are marked with tattoos to mark their place in society for life based on omens at birth. There are the antinomial outcasts who reject names and live in the wild. The plot almost gets lost in the richness of the setting. These books deserve a much bigger audience than they have found.
