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Tirzah, a female glass worker, is forced into slavery, and transported to the southern realm of Ashdod, an area dominated by mathmatician-magicians called the Magi. When the Magi start building a special type of pyramid called Threshold, they unwittingly unleash a dark and malignant power.
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"Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create sweeping epics and the storyteller's gift that makes readers love her." -Locus
"Sara Douglass is a powerful voice in high fantasy that readers can equate to the likes of Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Anne McCaffrey."
-Romantic Times
HADES' DAUGHTER
"Douglass once again combines mythology, fantasy, magic, and romance to produce a consistent, well-rounded story full of seriously flawed characters both abhorrently evil and enthrallingly empathetic."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Combining history, myth, and fantasy, Sara Douglass re-creates the Aegean world and a pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page."
-Romantic Times Book Club (4 1/2 stars)
STARMAN
"Exciting writing with emotional highs and lows! Ms. Douglass has created a
mystical world populated with many vividly portrayed races."
-Romantic Times (4 1/2 stars)
ENCHANTER
"With three races, licit and illicit loves, prophecy, fraternal hatred, and enough battles for several campaigns, Douglass has whipped up enough raw material to avoid shortchanging readers throughout her vast undertaking."
-Booklist
THE WAYFARER REDEMPTION
"This is storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic, and romance."
-Romantic Times
"An exciting fantasy epic that is like the beginning of a roller-coaster ride. It goes up the incline ever so slow, but at the apex it takes off at the speed of light."
-Midwest Book Review
About the Author:
"Sara Douglass is a powerful voice in high fantasy that readers can equate to the likes of Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Anne McCaffrey."
-Romantic Times
HADES' DAUGHTER
"Douglass once again combines mythology, fantasy, magic, and romance to produce a consistent, well-rounded story full of seriously flawed characters both abhorrently evil and enthrallingly empathetic."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Combining history, myth, and fantasy, Sara Douglass re-creates the Aegean world and a pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page."
-Romantic Times Book Club (4 1/2 stars)
STARMAN
"Exciting writing with emotional highs and lows! Ms. Douglass has created a
mystical world populated with many vividly portrayed races."
-Romantic Times (4 1/2 stars)
ENCHANTER
"With three races, licit and illicit loves, prophecy, fraternal hatred, and enough battles for several campaigns, Douglass has whipped up enough raw material to avoid shortchanging readers throughout her vast undertaking."
-Booklist
THE WAYFARER REDEMPTION
"This is storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic, and romance."
-Romantic Times
"An exciting fantasy epic that is like the beginning of a roller-coaster ride. It goes up the incline ever so slow, but at the apex it takes off at the speed of light."
-Midwest Book Review
Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the south of Australia, in 1957. She spent her early years chasing (and being chased by) sheep and collecting snakes before her parents transported her to the city of Adelaideand the more genteel surroundings of Methodist Ladies College. Having graduated, Sara then became a nurse on her parents' urging (it was both feminine and genteel) and spent seventeen years planning and then effecting her escape.
That escape came in the form of a Ph.D. in early modern English history. Sara and nursing finally parted company after a lengthy time of bare tolerance, and she took up a position as senior lecturer in medieval European history at the Bendigo campus of the Victorian University of La Trobe. Finding the departmental politics of academic life as intolerable as the emotional rigours of nursing, Sara needed to find another escape.
This took the form of one of Sara's childhood loves - books and writing. Spending some years practising writing novels, HarperCollins Australia picked up one of Sara's novels, BattleAxe (published in North America as The Wayfarer Redemption), the first in the Tencendor series, and chose it as the lead book in their new fantasy line with immediate success. Since 1995 Sara has become Australia's leading fantasy author and one of its top novelists. Her books are now sold around the world.
That escape came in the form of a Ph.D. in early modern English history. Sara and nursing finally parted company after a lengthy time of bare tolerance, and she took up a position as senior lecturer in medieval European history at the Bendigo campus of the Victorian University of La Trobe. Finding the departmental politics of academic life as intolerable as the emotional rigours of nursing, Sara needed to find another escape.
This took the form of one of Sara's childhood loves - books and writing. Spending some years practising writing novels, HarperCollins Australia picked up one of Sara's novels, BattleAxe (published in North America as The Wayfarer Redemption), the first in the Tencendor series, and chose it as the lead book in their new fantasy line with immediate success. Since 1995 Sara has become Australia's leading fantasy author and one of its top novelists. Her books are now sold around the world.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers (Aust
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0732257492
- ISBN 13 9780732257491
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages560
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Book Description Paperback. A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of Threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! Thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of Threshold. Among them is Tirzah, a young glassworker. Tirzah has a secret gift - and one that may kill her. She can communicate with glass, and what the glass of Threshold screams at Tirzah every time she touches it drives her to despair. Boaz, the Master Magus, is watching Tirzah. He knows she's hiding something and he'll do whatever it takes to discover it. But what secret does Boaz hide? And why is the Song of the Frogs the only way to Save Ashdod? A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of Threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! Thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of Threshold. Among them is Tirzah, a young glassworker. Tirzah has a secret gift - and one that may kill her. She can communicate with glass, and what the glass of Threshold screams at Tirzah every time she touches it drives her to despair. Boaz, the Master Magus, is watching Tirzah. He knows she's hiding something and he'll do whatever it takes to discover it. But what secret does Boaz hide? And why is the Song of the Frogs the only way to Save Ashdod? 1997. A paperback copy in very good condition. 3.5 Centimeters X 11.4 Centimeters X 17.9 Centimeters. Seller Inventory # 7760174
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Book Description Paperback. A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of Threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! Thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of Threshold. Among them is Tirzah, a young glassworker. Tirzah has a secret gift - and one that may kill her. She can communicate with glass, and what the glass of Threshold screams at Tirzah every time she touches it drives her to despair. Boaz, the Master Magus, is watching Tirzah. He knows she's hiding something and he'll do whatever it takes to discover it. But what secret does Boaz hide? And why is the Song of the Frogs the only way to Save Ashdod? A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of Threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! Thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of Threshold. Among them is Tirzah, a young glassworker. Tirzah has a secret gift - and one that may kill her. She can communicate with glass, and what the glass of Threshold screams at Tirzah every time she touches it drives her to despair. Boaz, the Master Magus, is watching Tirzah. He knows she's hiding something and he'll do whatever it takes to discover it. But what secret does Boaz hide? And why is the Song of the Frogs the only way to Save Ashdod? Good Condition 3.5 Centimeters X 11.4 Centimeters X 17.9 Centimeters. Seller Inventory # 16567472
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