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The Spiral #4
Maxie's Demon
Maxie is in trouble - that's what happens when you drive a Ferrari Testarossa off the motorway at 120 miles per hour. But his problems are just beginning; after he hears about the Spiral, a whirlpool of time and space, he starts bumping into Elizabethan alchemists and bands of pirates.
- GenresFantasy
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First published April 1, 1997
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About the author
Michael Scott Rohan
38 books81 followersMichael Scott Rohan (born 1951 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author and writer on opera.
He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. He then collaborated with Allan J. Scott on the nonfiction The Hammer and The Cross (an account of Christianity arriving in Viking lands, not to be confused with Harry Harrison's similarly themed novel trilogy of the same name) and the fantasy novels The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.
Rohan is best known for the Ice Age-set trilogy The Winter of the World. He also wrote the Spiral novels, in which our world is the Hub, or Core, of a spiral of mythic and legendary versions of familiar cities, countries and continents.
In the "Author's Note" to The Lord of Middle Air, Rohan asserts that he and Walter Scott have a common ancestor in Michael Scot, who is a character in the novel.
[copied and adapted from en.wikipedia.org]
He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. He then collaborated with Allan J. Scott on the nonfiction The Hammer and The Cross (an account of Christianity arriving in Viking lands, not to be confused with Harry Harrison's similarly themed novel trilogy of the same name) and the fantasy novels The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.
Rohan is best known for the Ice Age-set trilogy The Winter of the World. He also wrote the Spiral novels, in which our world is the Hub, or Core, of a spiral of mythic and legendary versions of familiar cities, countries and continents.
In the "Author's Note" to The Lord of Middle Air, Rohan asserts that he and Walter Scott have a common ancestor in Michael Scot, who is a character in the novel.
[copied and adapted from en.wikipedia.org]
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July 8, 2022
I finished Maxie's Demon a while ago and coming, belatedly, to reviewing it I find that I can remember very little of the story. This does, I'm afraid, rather confirm the feeling of disappointment I had in reading it. Maxie's Demon is the fourth in Rohan's Spiral series, a sort of spin off sequel, and it doesn't really add anything to the first three books. The premise - the Spiral that connects, envelops and transcends mundane reality with intermingled worlds of history and myth - is as compelling as ever but the story, and Maxie the protagonist in particular, don't really carry the premise anywhere further.
An enjoyable enough read in its own right but a disappointment after the previous books.
An enjoyable enough read in its own right but a disappointment after the previous books.
September 8, 2012
I thought it was somewhat shall and very contrived. I never got particularly immersed in the plot or the characters and overall I thought it was all rather at arms length. I suppose I couldn't identify with Maxie, I didn't really get the "angels" nor the other main characters.
January 15, 2015
Fun read that's about it
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