Falcons of Narabedla

Mike Kenscott wakes up in another man's body on a world trapped between time, and the only way home is to become a weapon against the thing that stole him. He is now Adric of the Scarlet Tower, heir to a fortress that stands at the edge of a nightmare. To return to his own time and identity, he must journey to the Keep of the Dreamer and loose the terrible Falcons of Narabedla, creatures of terrible power that have been imprisoned for centuries. But using them means unleashing destruction on a scale that will haunt him forever. This is identity horror wrapped in portal fantasy: a man who must destroy a world to save himself, who must become a monster to go home. Bradley's 1957 novella moves with the speed of a fever dream, each scene more disorienting and dazzling than the last. It's a story about what we sacrifice when we claw our way back to who we were, and whether the self we recover is still truly ours. For readers who want their science fiction dark, philosophical, and deeply unsettling.