Far-seer( Series - Sawyer, Robert J. Quintaglio Ascension, Bk. 1. )

Afsan, a young saurian, learns much about the heavens while apprenticed to the court astrologer. But he is ostracized when he contradicts the saurian religious belief that the great glowing body which fills the sky each night is a divinity. An intriguing story set in a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended.

The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. Buth when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith... and may save his world from disaster