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Kantmorie Saga #2
Circle, Crescent, Star
Now Dibell's latest novel takes us again to the world of the Valde warriorsand the legendary science menace of forbidden Kantmoire.
Jannus confronts triple danger as the immortal monster Ashai Rey hunts himdown, as his protector of the Crescent goes to battle with the dictratess ofthe Circle, and as the warrior women bands challenge him to deadly combat.
The outcome would affect all on that once great but now declining planet -and only the power conferred on him as the secret king of Kantmorie heldhope against the overwhelming scientific machinations of the Star.
Jannus confronts triple danger as the immortal monster Ashai Rey hunts himdown, as his protector of the Crescent goes to battle with the dictratess ofthe Circle, and as the warrior women bands challenge him to deadly combat.
The outcome would affect all on that once great but now declining planet -and only the power conferred on him as the secret king of Kantmorie heldhope against the overwhelming scientific machinations of the Star.
- GenresFantasyScience Fiction
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
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Ansen Dibell
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Ansen Dibell was the penname used by Nancy Ann Dibble (September 8, 1942 – March 7, 2006), an American science fiction author, who also published books about fiction writing. Born in Staten Island, New York, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop and earned a doctorate in 19th C. English literature. She taught literature and creative writing at several colleges and universities until 1980, when she became a freelance editor and author. From 1983 she worked as editor at Writer's Digest Books.
She published a number of stories and poems in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and received two awards for her poetry. Her novels sublimate events in her life into fiction.
Ansen Dibell was the penname used by Nancy Ann Dibble (September 8, 1942 – March 7, 2006), an American science fiction author, who also published books about fiction writing. Born in Staten Island, New York, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop and earned a doctorate in 19th C. English literature. She taught literature and creative writing at several colleges and universities until 1980, when she became a freelance editor and author. From 1983 she worked as editor at Writer's Digest Books.
She published a number of stories and poems in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and received two awards for her poetry. Her novels sublimate events in her life into fiction.
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November 8, 2017
I picked up this book with the attitude of "what could possibly be next?" Pursuit of the Screamer concluded with apocalypse, as the last ruins of the Kantmorie civilization are swept away and new vistas are before the less advanced civilizations that grew in its shadow. There's no way to be more cataclysmic or bigger in scope.
What follows is surprisingly intimate as the next stage of the Shai's plans grind on, and it is never clear until the very end where this is all going and how it will play out. And like the previous book going into this one, I have no idea what would come next.
The storytelling is deep, with a web of interests and relationships between people and groups, and some of the revelations about the Valde and their society are genuinely surprising.
Pursuit of the Screamer needed a world map, and this book has one. Ironically the location of the city of Quickmoor is not obvious (the word is printed a little too small and is near other things), and the city itself needs the map more. The book never leaves Quickmoor and Dibell's discussion of the city's geography is never clear.
What follows is surprisingly intimate as the next stage of the Shai's plans grind on, and it is never clear until the very end where this is all going and how it will play out. And like the previous book going into this one, I have no idea what would come next.
The storytelling is deep, with a web of interests and relationships between people and groups, and some of the revelations about the Valde and their society are genuinely surprising.
Pursuit of the Screamer needed a world map, and this book has one. Ironically the location of the city of Quickmoor is not obvious (the word is printed a little too small and is near other things), and the city itself needs the map more. The book never leaves Quickmoor and Dibell's discussion of the city's geography is never clear.
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