Descendant of colonists from Earth, Flores of the Turlicum, warlord of the city of Ven, pursues the beautiful priestess Amina across the alien landscape of the planet Maalstrom to the Island of the Sun-God. At world's end he traverses the many levels of Ra'Allah, the city in the clouds, further unfolding the mysterious biological relationships that tie together humans, hornets, and silent winged malkops that retrieve bodies of the dead. Robert E. Howard's Conan meets Game of Thrones in this unique thinking-man's visionary and heroic bloody fantasy. 'The Selk King' is sequel to 'Maalstrom', first book in the 'Maalstrom Series'.