Returning home from a weekend vacation on the Oregon coast, Lee Kaaler discovers that his apartment has been ransacked.

Kaaler immediately calls the police, who discover there are no spoons in his apartment. They also tell him the burglary appears to have been well planned and professionally done, implying the burglar and the mastermind think that Lee had something of enormous value. Kaaler knows he owns nothing unusual for a bachelor, and certainly nothing valuable.

A week later, another baffling burglary takes place.

This time, the crime occurs in the home of Kaaler’s parents, yielding the same result: only spoons were taken — and all other valuable possessions ignored. As Kaaler tries to make sense of these events, he remembers that he, in fact does, own a sterling silver spoon he inherited from his grandmother, but it is in his safety deposit box. The more he thinks about the spoon, the more he feels compelled to retrieve it.

After doing so, Lee takes it to his place and examines it carefully. While looking at it, he notices the image of a ceiling fan can be seen in its bowl. At first, this surprises him; then it frightens him: there is no ceiling fan in his apartment! Quite suddenly, the image of the ceiling fan is replaced by that of a man, a man who speaks with a strange accent and says that he has been trying to contact Lee for many years. Even more distressing, he insists on referring to Lee as the “Guardian”

The epic opening volume of the SPOONWORLD series, The Guardian and the FarCaller is, in many ways, a tour de force by rising novelist Chuck Marsters; one that impressively reflects the author’s unusual perspective on contemporary fantasy and shows how it could exist and flourish in today’s world — with no one the wiser.

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