Night's Sorceries (Flat Earth)

Author: Lee, Tanith

Color: Black

Edition: Reissue

Features:

• DAW

Number Of Pages: 320

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A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. The final entry in Tanith Lee’s classic fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Sorceries forms a breathtaking conclusion to a dark and intricate epic of demons, gods, and mortals. Azhriaz, daughter of Azhrarn, Demon Lord of the Night, has defied her father’s wishes. Taking on the mantle of Delirium’s Mistress, she escapes her island prison in the Underearth, where she would have spent her life in eternal slumber. With Prince Chuz, her lover and the sworn enemy of Azhrarn, she flees to the mortal realm of the Flat Earth to escape her father’s wrath.  But Azhrarn will not be so easily deterred, and the lovers’ journey has not left the world untouched. In the wake of their flight, bizarre new enchantments emerge, exposing a world of chaos and mystery. The mortals of the Flat Earth are inextricably entwined in circumstances beyond their understanding, caught in the midst of grand conflicts of ambition and betrayal. Night’s Sorceries spins seven of these tales of wonder—of humans confronted with the supernatural. Trials of true love, tests of humility and fortitude, and startling transformations weave together in these lush stories of passion, revelation, and the human soul. 

Reviews:

“The whole work shows Tanith Lee at her finest: sombre, passionate, glittering, rich, imaginative, flashing with stiletto wit.... It would be impossible to single out the best tale.”

— British Fantasy Society Bulletin

“Fantasy novelists ought to read Lee to learn that one can do something original and interesting in the genre.”

— S.F. Chronicle

“The visual imagery that Tanith Lee evokes with her prose enables the reader to really see a story’s events in a way very few authors achieve. This book makes for enjoyable, occasionally profound, reading.”

— Fantasy Review

“[Lee] has the gift of drawing clear, rich, and colorful pictures with the written word, invoking visions of wondrous magic lands inhabited by demons, magicians, and beasts. Night’s Sorceries is fantasy at its best.”

— Rave Reviews

“An example of Lee’s wonderful way with words, a skill that delights her readers, faithful fans, all.”

— Kliatt

About the Author:

Tanith Lee is one of the leading fantasy authors working today. She has written over 50 novels and short story collections, among them the bestselling Flat Earth Series. She has won the World Fantasy Award numerous times as well as the August Derleth Award. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Night’s Daughter, Day’s Desire In the hem of the forest a village lay. An old road ran by the spot, on its way to the towns of the south, and in the past this road it was which had given the village importance and prosperity. Since then other thoroughfares had been built, and fewer travelers came and went through the deep woods. A caravan had not been seen in those parts for seven years. The pink stones of which the village was made had softened, and the hearts grown harder. On a hill above, among the trees, stood a temple. Its pillars were ringed by faded gilt and the turquoise tiles had chipped away from its roofs. Nevertheless, the priests lived well, for the villagers had stayed pious. Every night, on the highest point of the temple, a beacon was lit, to remind the gods where the village rested.      It sometimes happened that a decent family of the area, finding it had too many mouths to feed, would offer a younger son to the temple—no women were allowed there—as its servant. Just such a one was Beetle.      At seven years of age he had been left by his nurse, in a shadowy ghost-light before dawn in the temple’s outer court-yard. Around his neck was a small flawed ruby on a piece of silk. This was the child’s “gift,” without which he could no...

EAN: 9780756411015

Release Date: 02-05-2017

Languages: English

Item Condition: New

Binding: Mass Market Paperback