About the book: 2003 / A world devoid of metals, where the achievements of civilization border on the most cruel barbarism, a world of the moon wounded by Fire Spears, and mad horsemen-conquerors on four-horned horses... This is the Land of Storms, created by the magnificent imagination of John Roberts, a world where the islander shepherd Gale will have to ascend from obscurity to the heights of glory and royal power.