Canyon of Babel

Canyon of Babel
Daniel Ausema
Jupiter World Press
Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Reviewed by Eugen M. Bacon

Canyon of Babel is an odd fantasy that did not altogether hook me. When Fael wakes up in an echoing canyon labyrinth, castaway by something or someone, to something or someone, he is as surprised as the little boy he finds, stranded with lost memory as he. Tossed into some sort of leadership role, drawn towards a language of wisdom, Fael is constrained to confront his street past.
Throughout, start to finish, hovers a sense that the chronicle is an excerpt from another beginning aimed for another end; that the “here” furnished is simply a middle to an “other”. And although some short stories can be part of a novel, this one, entertaining in sort, does not quite stand alone.