The Venom Trees of Sunga

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This story is a semisequel to my wife's and my science-fiction novel The Stones of Nomura (Bluejay, 1988). That is, it is synecumenal with (laid in the same world as) the previous novel, but a couple of decades later and with different characters. Among the less obvious pronunciations, I suggest:

Akbar as UCK-bar

Feënzuo as feh-en-zwaw

Gueilin as gway-lin

kyuumei as kew-may

Oõi as aw-oy

Seisen as say-sen

Sungao as soong-gow

"Shiiko" rhymes with "pekoe"; the "singh" of "Mahasingh" sounds like "single" without the "le."

The steamship Ijumo wheezed and puffed its way to the pier at Sungecho, on the island of Sunga, on the planet that Terrans called Kukulcan after an Aztec god. Kukulcan was a satellite of the star Epsilon Eridani. Kirk Sa-lazar stood with his parents' friends the Ritters at the rail.

"That's Sungecho," said Hilbert Ritter, graying and stoop-shouldered. "A lot of Terran riffraff have collected here; not a good place to explore alone at night."

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