There are 5 books in the Inquestor Series series. The newest book is Homeworld of the Heart which came out in 2020.

The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras.  Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and profound family conflicts — Greek tragedy writ large.  Light on the…

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The Throne of Madness

Book cover of The Throne of Madness
Kelver had been chosen by a heretic to be the chosen one who would bring down a galactic empire that had lasted twenty thousand years and controlled a million worlds. He was sent to Uran s’Varek, the vast artificial sphere build around the black hole at the heart of the…

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Utopia Hunters

Book cover of Utopia Hunters

“His multicultural viewpoint may yet give us the best SF novel of all time” — Analog

For twenty thousand years, the godlike Inquestors have held sway over the one million worlds of the Dispersal of Man.  S.P. Somtow’s limitless imagination has created a universe of breathtaking majesty, amazing beauty, and…

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The Darkling Wind

Book cover of The Darkling Wind

The majestic conclusion of the original Inquestor Series, S.P. Somtow's classic masterpiece of the fall of a galactic  empire, returns in a new edition in time for the publication of new novels in the series.  


What is it like to rule over a million worlds, to uphold a civilization that…

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Homeworld of the Heart

By S.P. Somtow , Mikey Jiraros (illustrator) ,

Book cover of Homeworld of the Heart

After forty years, S.P. Somtow has produced a fifth novel in the Chronicles of the High Inquest, one of the most lauded galactic empire epics of the 1980s.   Critically acclaimed yet never previously in print as a complete set, the series has passionate adherents — and they have finally persuaded…