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."