Flight To Opar

In 2015, Meteor House first published their "restored" edition of Philip Jose Farmer's Flight to Opar, the second novel in his "Khokarsa" series. This restored edition reintegrated nearly 4,000 words that were previously cut from Farmer’s original manuscript when the novel was published in 1976.

This new trade edition also includes all of the original Roy G. Krenkel illustrations created for the DAW paperback edition from '76, plus the bonus story “A Kick in the Side,” written by Song of Kwasin co-author, Christopher Paul Carey, previously published in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1, and taking place during the events of Flight to Opar.

This edition also features rare and previously unpublished bonus material, including:

• A Preface by editor/author Christopher Paul Carey.
• A new introduction by S.M. Stirling (New York Times bestselling author of the Change series).
• "The Khokarsan Language" by Philip José Farmer.0
• Khokarsan Glossary by Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey.
• "A Guide to Khokarsa" by Christopher Paul Carey

Hadon of Opar was the winner of the Great Games and the rightful claimant to the throne of Khokarsa, a mighty empire that stretched along the shores of ancient Africa’s great inland seas. But the old king has refused to surrender his power, and Hadon finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody civil war between the zealous priests of the sun god and the beneficent priestesses of the great mother goddess.

Now a divination of the oracle hurls Hadon on his most dangerous adventure yet. With a tyrant’s armies and warships hot on their heels, Hadon and his companions must set out on a journey through perilous jungles and across storm-racked seas to reach the city of his birth—for only in far-flung golden Opar can he fulfill the oracle’s prophecy and save the land from utter doom.