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Set in 1872 a young man, David, and Gabriel, a young boy, find themselves possessed by uncanny visionary powers, which the werewolves learn about when their survival is threatened, they turn to a renegade werewolf for help.Tags
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Pretty heavy on filler but an interesting story nonetheless. Hopefully the rest of the trilogy will prove to be a better read.
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Author Brian M. Stableford was born in Shipley, Yorkshire, U. K. on July 25, 1948. He received an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1979. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1988, he taught sociology at the University of Reading. He has published over 100 books, including science show more fiction and fantasy works, non-fiction, translations, and learned articles. He has written under the pseudonym of Brian Craig as well as under Brian Stableford and Brian M. Stableford. He has received numerous awards for both fiction and non-fiction including the British Science Fiction Award (1995), the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1987), the J. Lloyd Eaton Award (1987), the Science Fiction Research Association's (SFRA) Pioneer Award (1996), and the SFRA's Pilgrim Award (1999). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1990
- People/Characters
- David Lydyard; Sir Edward Tallentyre
- Important places
- Egypt; London, England, UK
- Dedication
- For my daughter Kate,
in memory of the summer's day in 1984
when she shared with me the fascination and delight
which she had found in the legend of Perseus,
as displayed in Clash of the Titans. - First words
- The surface of Hell is in perpetual turmoil; molten magma cools to form a jet-black crust, which is continually cracked by pressure from below, each fissure showing blinding white for an instant, then red for a while, before ... (show all)the emitted lava cools to become part of the crust.
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 823.087382
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 823.087382 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Horror and ghost fiction Horror fiction Werewolves, lycanthropes and shapeshifters
- LCC
- PR6069 .T17 .W46 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1961-2000
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- 187
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- 174,479
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.27)
- Languages
- English, French, Italian, Polish
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 7
