The Deer's Cry

In the Earth year 453 by the Common Reckoning, a small fleet of ships leaves Ireland, carrying emigrants seeking a new home in a far land. But the ships they sail are not the leather-hulled boats of later legend, and the seas they cross are not the wild Western Ocean. Their ships are starships; the oceans the starry gulfs of space itself. The new world they seek is a distant double-ringed planet, and though this great voyage is indeed led by a man called Brendan, he is no Christian navigator-monk but the son of a mortal lord and a princess of the Sidhe. To escape an invader named Patraic determined to drive the magic of the Old Ways from the land, he must take the best of Celtdom, the faerie race known as the Danaans, to the stars.