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The setting is mostly historical, with some historical characters and descriptions of particular locations. Fantasy elements include occasional magical feats, artifacts, and non-human characters. The German word Narrenturm means "the Tower of Fools", a tower in which, in the Middle Ages, people suffering from rare mental diseases were isolated.
The trilogy was published by Orbit in the US and Gollancz in the UK with the translation being handled by David French, who had previously worked with Sapkowski on The Witcher series. [1] [2] The main protagonist of the series is Reinmar von Bielau (Polish: Reinmar z Bielawy, i.e., Reinmar of Bielawa), known as Reynevan. He is a doctor, a ...
The Archives of Anthropos is a Christian series of six fantasy novels for children written by the British author John White. [1] Written in the tradition of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, this series present a fantasy world of kings, sorcerers and goblins in an allegorical fashion. [2]
Note: This is for articles on novel series—which are a set or series of novels or books that should be read in order as is often the case in speculative fiction and all its subgenres. Can be thought of as one over-riding storyline, and is often without plot re-introduction, reiteration or reminder, save for cursory mention of past events.
Tower Publications was an American publisher based in New York City that operated from 1958 to 1982. Originally known for their Midwood Books line of erotic men's fiction, it also published science fiction and fantasy under its Tower Books line and published comic books in the late 1960s under its Tower Comics imprint.
The Rowan (1990) is a science fiction novel by American writer Anne McCaffrey, the first book in The Tower and the Hive series (also known as The Rowan series). It is set in the universe of the "Pegasus" trilogy, against a backdrop of a technologically advanced society in which telepathy, psychokinesis and other psychic talents have become scientifically accepted and researched.
The Fall is the first book in Garth Nix's The Seventh Tower series, published in 2000 by Scholastic in partnership with Lucasfilm under the imprint LucasBooks. [1] It tells the story of Tal, a boy who lives in a world with eternal darkness, whose attempt to steal a Sunstone causes him to fall into the unknown world outside of the mysterious castle he grew up in.
An English translation was released in the United States by Orbit (titled The Tower of Swallows) in May 2016, [2] [3] and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz (titled The Tower of the Swallow) in 2017. [4] The Polish title refers to a singular swallow, so The Tower of the Swallow used by Gollancz is the more accurate translation.