Spider World: The Tower
by Colin Wilson
Spider World (1, 2, 3) (all editions except 1987-1989, i.e. Ace Books published this volume in the USA as three separate volumes.)
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Once the Earth was ruled by human, and insects were very small, with even the largest no bigger than a man's fist. But now, in the 25th century, humans serve giant beetles and spiders as slaves and often as food. Slaves all, or servants--except for those who live in the desert, spending most of their time underground. For Niall and his family, life is hard, but together they eke out an existence until the day Niall does what was said to be impossible: He kills a spider. This powerful act show more brings Niall to the attention and seat of the Spider Lord. But as he finds himself deep within the hostile city of the spiders, Niall also meets allies: Odina, a spider servant born and bred, and Bill, no mere man but an honorary beetle. Niall's special gift makes him useful to the spiders, who want access to their city's greatest mystery: an impenetrable white tower. But Niall alone can enter, and what he finds inside are the very facts of our planet's history and humanity's last chance for freedom and a future. Armed with the secrets of the white tower, the humans mount an epic struggle for power against the vast and brutal forces of the tyrannical Spider Lord. show lessTags
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Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 in Leicester, England. He attended a local technical school, where he did well in physics and chemistry, and left at 16 to work in a wool factory. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a laboratory assistant, tax clerk, laborer and hospital porter. His first book, The Outsider, was published in 1956 when he show more was 24 years old. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 works on a wide variety of subjects including philosophy, religion, occult and supernatural phenomenea, music, sex, crime and critical theory. His other works include Religion and the Rebel, The Age of Defeat, Ritual in the Dark, The Strength to Dream, Origins of the Sexual Impulse, The Occult, Alien Dawn, Dreaming to Some Purpose, The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men, and Super Consciousness. His biographies include works on Bernard Shaw, David Lindsay, Herman Hesse, Wilhelm Reich, Jorge Luis Borges, Ken Russell, Rudolph Steiner, Aleister Crowley, and P. D. Ouspensky. Wilson died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) Colin Wilson, author of such bestsellers as "The Outsider" & "The Occult", also writes on archaeology, astronomy, & cosmology. His recent book, "From Atlantis to the Sphinx", was a London "Times" bestseller. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1987
- First words
- As the first cold whisper of the dawn wind blew under the flat stone that covered the burrow, Niall placed his ear against the crack and listened with total concentration.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Doggins caught him as he fell.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- There is an unfortunate ambiguity involving the sequence and names of the Spider World series.
The 1987 edition of "The Tower", as well as the 2001 one, include the text of what would otherwise be the first thre... (show all)e volumes of this series: "The Desert", "The Tower" and "The Fortress", in that order. Volumes 4 to 6 are "The Delta", "The Magician" and "Shadowland", in that order.
Therefore, the 1989 edition of "The Tower" is not equivalent to either the 1987 or the 2001 editions, but instead the middle part of both. Those reading it will want to read "The Desert" first and will need to bridge their reading with "The Fortress" before following into "The Delta".
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