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Toole, describing the novel during correspondence with an editor he was pitching Confederacy to, wrote of it "In 1954, when I was 16, I wrote a book called The Neon Bible, a grim, adolescent, sociological attack upon the hatreds caused by the various Calvinist religions in the South—and the fundamentalist mentality is one of the roots of what ...
Nona the Ninth is a 2022 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir.It is the third book in her The Locked Tomb series, after Gideon the Ninth (2019) and Harrow the Ninth (2020), with Alecto the Ninth to follow.
He leaves Neon Circus, moves to Wyoming and takes a job painting houses. He stops using computers generally, but he keeps a tablet computer to read Neon Circus occasionally. He remembers one of his professors taught that the end of any story is the end "only for now".
[7] In the 1988 book Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock said "Smith crams enough colour and outré incident into a short story to fill the average novel." [ 2 ] Amra ' s L. Sprague de Camp favoured the collection with "all sixteen Zothique stories, plus a poem, by the master of the macabre in jewel-bedizened proze ...
This book is set in the present and follows the adventurer Nicholas Quenton-Harper and Egyptologist Dr. Royan Al Simma as they uncover the tomb of Tanus. Duraid Al Simma and his wife Royan decipher the seventh scroll from the tomb of Lostris. They are attacked and their work is stolen. Duraid is brutally murdered, but Royan escapes.
It was released in 1968 under the pseudonym of John Lange. Re-released in 1974 by Bantam Books as The Last Tomb. Hard Case Crime republished the novel under Crichton's name on October 29, 2013. [1] According to one source, it was the first book Crichton wrote and took him a week, earning him $1,500. [2]
In 1999, order to recognize the 25th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast published the "Greyhawk Classics", a series of seven novels based on well-known D&D adventures published by TSR during the first decade of the game: Against the Giants (1999), White Plume Mountain (1999), Descent into the Depths of the Earth (2000), The ...
Additional material was released in a PDF format only. (WW80310, November 2006, ISBN 1-58846-689-2) The Books of Sorcery, Vol. II: White and Black Treatises (by Joseph Carriker, Lydia Laurenson, Peter Schaefer, and Dustin Shampel): A tome of spells for sorcery and necromancy. Includes spells updated from 1st edition Exalted and some spells new ...