Galaxy’s Best Chef

Against all odds, Clara Ocol is chosen to write the biography of The Great Zion Wright - Leader of the Galactic Alliance, Pacifier of the terrifying Arkathy, and Ambassador of Peace. But Zion is neither a heroic soldier, a conqueror of worlds, a charismatic prophet, nor anything of the like. He is a chef...

However, when Clara first meets Zion, she's overcome with disappointment. Zion is succumbing to a mysterious brain disease, telling ridiculous tales from a millennium ago - long before The Fall and consequent loss of history. When Clara investigates these tales, she discovers an incredible phenomenon. One explaining how a chef from old Earth can live for 1500 years, survive humanity's near extinction, and become the galaxy's savior.

Ryan Duval's debut novel, Galaxy's Best Chef, resurrects the storytelling style of The Canterbury Tales, depicting nine tales spread along a main storyline, told from the perspectives of chefs, farmers, scientists, and soldiers as Earth's cultures amalgamate, expand into the solar system, and reach the stars.