"Moore's tale is beautiful and mysterious, and great fun even as it plumbs metaphysical depths. A tour de force!" —Jess Lederman, award-winning novelist and founder of The Works of George MacDonald Labyrinth of Dreams, by Brian Christopher Moore, the visionary author of Beneath the Silent Heavens , is a symphonic work, lush and lyrical, rich with philosophical insight, and leavened by a joyful sense of humor. In prose reminiscent of George Macdonald and Charles Williams, and at times harkening to Evelyn Waugh, J.L. Borges, and C.S. Lewis, Moore leads the reader on an astonishing journey of discovery and hope. The four novels that comprise Labyrinth of Dreams tell a timeless tale that will delight readers of Lewis’ Space Trilogy and Till We Have Faces, Ende’s The Neverending Story, and Miller’s A Canticle for Lebowitz . Wonder Stories for the Fierce and Childlike is the first book in the Labyrinth of Dreams quartet. The riddle of human destiny is woven in stories that question and enchant. Extraordinary music from an uninhabited planet lures a cargo ship into an unexpected encounter. A family changes its name and moves frequently, while the father tries to initiate his strange youngest child into an even stranger destiny. A celestial abbess commands a young nun to fulfill an odd task that culminates with the appearance of a prophetic comet. A brooding poet comes in from the desert to seek his beloved in the depths of a lunar underworld. The inhabitants of a faraway planet meet on the clandestine black market to purchase the memories of earth’s dead. The possibility for hope is bound up with the capacity to trust amidst darkness. Brian Christopher Moore has a PhD in Literature from the University of Dallas. His 2019 novel, Beneath the Silent Heavens , a reimagining of the story of Noah and the Flood, received rhapsodic reviews and is revered by a steadily growing readership. There is no truth to the rumor that he comes from a family of Druids or that he will only drink plum wine, though it is possibly true that he prefers cats to humans, allowing for exceptions.