Loyal Subject (German Library)
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    Loyal Subject (German Library)
    Heinrich Mann
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    ASIN: 0826409555
    Loyal And His Band
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      Loyal And His Band
      Mamma Andersson , Jules De Balincourt , and Jockum Nordstrom
      Manufacturer: Loyal
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      ASIN: 9163175002
      Release Date: 2006-01-01

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      The creators of Loyal magazine and its eponymous gallery celebrate five years with this, their first book. Loyal And His Band brings together a stunning variety of work from more than 20 artists--it's a collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, humorous, poignant stories and interviews with many who have been part of the Loyal family, including Jules de Balincourt, Matt Leines, Taylor McKimens, Misaki Kawai, Wes Lang, Eddie Martinez, Jockum Nordstrom, Mamma Andersson, Yun-Fei Ji, Stephen Shore, Miroslav Tichy, Brian Belott and more. A sample survey question: What is your power icon? In no particular order, the interviewees' answers include Steve McQueen, birch plywood, a bald eagle with a teardrop and stars in his eyes, the face of Nathan Maddox, Lake Nubanusit, and "a pentagram, an anchor, wolves, bees, and one ice-cold bottle of beer please." Loyal works to bring its exceptional artists a sense of belonging, and this is the record of its success.
      The Demetrius Legend and Its Literary Treatment in the Age of the Baroque
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        Ervin C. Brody
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        The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens: Germans Who Fought For Britain In The Second World War
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          Helen Fry
          Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
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          ASIN: 0750947004

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          This is the compelling story of the 10,000 German and Austrian nationals who fled Nazi persecution to join the British in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War. Most were Jews but a significant number were political opponents of the Nazi regime and so-called ‘degenerate artists’. They arrived in Britain between 1933 and 1939, and at the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939 became ‘enemy aliens’. They volunteered to serve in the British forces, donned the King’s uniform, swore allegiance to George VI and became affectionately known as ‘the King’s most loyal enemy aliens’. This compelling story includes previously unpublished interviews with veterans and an impressive selection of archive photographs, many of which are reproduced for the first time.
          The King's Own Loyal Enemy Aliens: German And Austrian Refugees in Britain's Armed Forces, 1939-45
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            The King's Own Loyal Enemy Aliens: German And Austrian Refugees in Britain's Armed Forces, 1939-45
            Peter Leighton-langer
            Manufacturer: Vallentine Mitchell
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            Knights Scratch and Sketch: For Brave Artists and Loyal Subjects of All Ages (Scratch and Sketch)
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              Knights Scratch and Sketch: For Brave Artists and Loyal Subjects of All Ages (Scratch and Sketch)
              Tom Nemmers
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              Loyal Service: Perspectives on French-Canadian Military Leaders
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                French Canadians have a long, proud history of serving their nation. From the earliest beginnings, French Canadians assisted in carving out and defending the nascent country. They were critical as defenders and as allies against hostile Natives and competing European powers. In the aftermath of the conquest, they continued, albeit under a different flag, to defend Canada. Loyal Service examines the service of a number of French-Canadian leaders and their contributions to the nation during times of peace, crisis, and conflict spanning the entire historical spectrum from New France to the end of the twentieth century.

                Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford
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                  Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford
                  Loyal Jones , and J. M. Forbes
                  Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
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                  It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would “cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song”—his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress—but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, which still thrives.
                  Re-made in Britain: From Her Majesty's Loyal Alien to Her Majesty's British Subject
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                    Re-made in Britain: From Her Majesty's Loyal Alien to Her Majesty's British Subject
                    Albert Vajda
                    Manufacturer: Polygon Bks.
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                    ASIN: 090491951X
                    The Royal King And Loyal Subject; A Woman Killed With Kindness: Two Plays
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                      The Royal King And Loyal Subject; A Woman Killed With Kindness: Two Plays
                      Thomas Heywood
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                      This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

                      The Autumn Castle
                      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                      • Australian SF Reader
                      • Entertaining urban fantasy
                      • Supernaturally Wonderful
                      • A taut, emotionally evocative and absorbing story that transports the reader into a believable yet breathtaking world
                      • Art from the Other Side
                      The Autumn Castle
                      Kim Wilkins
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                      ASIN: 044661663X

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                      Description: Christine Starlight lives with her lover, Jude, in a hip artist colony in modern day Berlin. Haunted by a troubled past, she is shocked when her missing childhood friend, May, suddenly reappears. Abducted as a young girl, May now returns over a magical, mythical kingdom where a witch lives in a well, a shape-shifting wolf is her trusted counselor, and fate hangs on the fall of an autumn leaf. But as Christine becomes enamored of this beautiful undying land, May falls dangerously in love with Jude. And as their mortal and immortal worlds collide, the women attract a danger born of both realms#151;a ruthless killer who knows that Christine can enter another dimension, a place where innocents are ripe for the taking#133;

                      Customer Reviews:

                      3 out of 5 stars Australian SF Reader.......2007-08-01

                      The Autumn Castle is definitely a bit much of a romance novel for me, although it is better than your garden variety version of those.

                      A woman meets one of those faerie type guys, after hanging around in a bohemian type community for a while, and the human blokes aren't good enough for her.

                      Yeah, he ain't ugly, no shock there.

                      Misadventures in both worlds happen thereafter.

                      4 out of 5 stars Entertaining urban fantasy.......2007-05-27

                      I've had this book on my reading list for quite some time. I just finished it and was so glad I read it. Christine Starlight is a young woman living in Germany with her artist boyfriend. Her life has been full of tragedy, having lost her parents as a child in a horrible accident; the same accident has left Christine in chronic pain. Her parents were famous and left her enormously wealthy, but Christine refuses to touch the money until she is married.

                      As a child, Christine was best friends with May, the girl next door. They pricked their fingers and became blood-sisters. Shortly thereafter, May is taken from her house in the night, never to be seen again. That is, until one day when Christine takes a fall and wakes up in a beautiful otherworld only to find that her childhood friend is Queen Mayfridh, who rules a faery kingdom. The kingdom is only accessible to Christine because the two worlds are aligned for a short time.

                      When Christine is pulled back to her world, Mayfridh decides to journey to the Real World to find here again. She then becomes entangled in a plot of romance, betrayal and magic, beautifully woven together. Kim Wilkins keeps a close eye on the rules of the magic, and it never gets out of hand, even for a fantasy novel.

                      My only criticism is the ending. I predicted it about halfway through the story. Still, it is very much worth reading, and for fantasy lovers, it won't disappoint.

                      5 out of 5 stars Supernaturally Wonderful.......2006-08-15

                      The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins is a lovely, romantic, thrilling fantasy that blends the folklore of Europe into an intricate tapestry of dark fantasy storytelling. It's filled with shapeshifters, witches, and magic, and every page is a complete delight to read. I will be reading and rereading this book for years.

                      5 out of 5 stars A taut, emotionally evocative and absorbing story that transports the reader into a believable yet breathtaking world.......2006-04-11

                      Enhanced with a talented narration by Audie Award nominee Richard Aspel, The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins is the complete and unabridged audiobook production (19 hours, 30 minutes on 17 compact discs) of Wilkins' unique blend of fantasy, murder, and conflicting love affairs. Set in an artist's colony in autumn Berlin, it focuses upon the relationship of Christine Starlight, her lover Jude, and the crimson-haired Mayfridh, ruler of a fantastic land, who loses her heart to Jude even as Christine becomes infatuated with Mayfridh's exotic kingdom. Yet a cunning, cruel, wealthy and powerful billionaire threatens them all with his mad and murderous wish to create a grand sculpture of fairy bones. A taut, emotionally evocative and absorbing story that transports the reader into a believable yet breathtaking world.

                      4 out of 5 stars Art from the Other Side.......2005-06-24

                      When we find that our protagonist, Christine, is not only NOT an artist, but is fairly baffled by her boyfriend's art, we know we're in an urban fantasy of a different sort. Where other books of this nature generally romanticize art, this book does not (to put it mildly).

                      Although "The Autumn Castle" is in some respects a conventional fantasy, it approaches some common urban fantasy subjects from a different perspective, and the romantic possibilities are (for once) not clearly marked from the beginning of the story.

                      Most of the characters are quite flawed, likeable one moment and loathsome the next. One is quite evil, but believably so. Wilkin's fairyland is a little simplistic, but as a stand-in for the fantasyland that Christine, after years of loss and pain, yearns for, it works.

                      The only complaint I'll make is that somewhere in this mildly subversive look at fairies, art and giving in to fantasy lurks a much more subversive book, with a stronger, less happy, less satisfying ending. For those who prefer their stories to be wrapped up nicely, that isn't much of a complaint.

                      This one is for readers who enjoy the intelligent, sensitive works of writers like Kelley Armstrong, Charles de Lint and Emma Bull.

                      The Autumn Castle.(Book Review): An article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch
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                        The Autumn Castle.(Book Review): An article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch
                        Alisa McCune
                        Manufacturer: Midwest Book Review
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                        This digital document is an article from Reviewer's Bookwatch, published by Midwest Book Review on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 629 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                        Descent of the Danube,: From Ratisbon to Vienna, during the autumn of 1827. With anecdotes and recollections, historical and legendary, of the towns, castles, ... and proprietors, ancient and modern
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                          Descent of the Danube,: From Ratisbon to Vienna, during the autumn of 1827. With anecdotes and recollections, historical and legendary, of the towns, castles, ... and proprietors, ancient and modern
                          James Robinson Planché
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                          Forerunner Foray
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                          • Claustrophobic plunge back into time
                          • Waystar, the Thieve's Guild and a Forerunner Artifact
                          • A simple little job for an Esper thief...
                          Forerunner Foray
                          Andre Norton
                          Manufacturer: Roc
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                          ASIN: 0451451767

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                          5 out of 5 stars Claustrophobic plunge back into time.......2005-09-15

                          Time was a very malleable dimension for the late author, Andre Norton. In "Forerunner Foray" (1973) her heroine, Ziantha twists and turns through multiple chambers of time as though crawling deeper and deeper into the curling interior of a nautilus shell. When she reaches time's claustrophobic center, Ziantha dies, is reborn, dies, and is reborn, all the while struggling to return to the only world she has known.

                          As a child on the luxury world of Korwar, Ziantha was rescued from an intergalactic refugee-camp-turned-slum called the Dipple. A member of the all-powerful Guild (Norton's version of the Mafia) discovered that the girl had supernormal talent, including the ability to 'read' objects, and he trains her up as a thief.

                          As the book opens, Ziantha has broken into the apartment of High Lord Jucundus, loaded to the gills with high-tech equipment and, of course, her own esper abilities. She psychometrizes (reads) the microrecordings that she was sent to find and is about to leave the apartment, when she is almost felled by a psychic demand for her attention. It is a dusty lump of clay on Lord Jucundus's knick-knack table. Ziantha resists the urge to steal it, but the next morning she returns to a park next to the apartment building and apports (psychically transports) the ugly little object into her possession.

                          Her Guild masters discover Ziantha's extra-curricular thievery, and after their initial anger they become intrigued by the strange object which has psychically bonded itself to their errant apprentice. Buried within the clay is a Forerunner artifact called a focus-stone.

                          The alien artifact has an agenda of its own. It wishes to be reunited with its 'twin' and leads Ziantha and her masters to a burned-off planet, then hurtles the psychic back through time, into the body of a war slave who has been chained into her captor's tomb!

                          As she struggles to breathe, Ziantha-now-Vintra realizes that the corpse beside her is moving. Another psychic has been dragged through time by the focus-stone and dumped into the body of the deceased enemy general.

                          Ris Lantee, son of Shan Lantee of "Storm over Warlock" and "Ordeal in Otherwhere" fame is the valiant hero of "Forerunner Foray." He suffers an even worse fate than Ziantha in that he is transferred into the body of the dead warrior and ruler, Turan and must spent a large part of the novel keeping the corpse reanimated while he and Ziantha quest for the second focus-stone.

                          Ris-now-Turan is finally in such bad shape that Ziantha must make a solo quest further back into the burned-out planet's history in order to recover the second focus stone.

                          Now her ordeal truly begins.

                          This SF novel is fairly standard Norton except for her heroine's powerful to-the-death struggle in an ancient storm-wracked seahold. Ziantha tries to recover the alien artifact that will return her to her own time while her new alter-ego, D'Eyree attempts to save a whole world.

                          I think Norton realized what a powerful scenario she had created in the drowning sea-hold of Nornath, as she used a very similar background in "Perilous Dreams" (1976).

                          5 out of 5 stars Waystar, the Thieve's Guild and a Forerunner Artifact.......2003-03-07

                          Ziantha, another of Andre Norton's outsider characters with a wild talent, was working for Lady Yasa, a Salariki Veep in the Guild, when she was compelled to aport a Forerunner artifact.

                          If the sentence above means anything to you then settle back, you are going to love Forerunner Foray. If it sounds like so much gobbilty gook then you are in a for a bigger treat-- welcome to the far future world of Andre Norton.

                          Humanity has spread out to the stars like fluff blown from a dandelion head. Terrans have met alien races, been exposed to alien suns, and mutated until it is hard to say what the original stock was.

                          Ziantha, the heroine of Forerunner Foray, is Terran to the eye, but she has a wild talent that makes her both feared and valued. She has psychic abilities that first draw her to a chance seen artifact in a room where she is engaged in some highly illegal activity. Unable to forget the item, she later aports it from the apartment with the aid of an alien "pet", kept by Ziantha's employer, much as Ziantha herself is kept. This release of power is noted by a prowling sensitive.

                          This event is noted by Lady Yasa's superiors and she is warned to disappear for a while. This fits in very well with the Salariki's own plans for Ziantha.

                          This book gives a closer look at the underworld of the future, including the mysterious Waystar, an outlaw hideout. There is also an interesting adventure story as Ziantha and her puruser are drawn into the past of the source of the Forerunner artifact.

                          There are some darker themes played out in this story but it's also good space opera and better than average Norton, which is very good indeed.

                          5 out of 5 stars A simple little job for an Esper thief..........2001-07-05

                          Don't confuse this book with _Forerunner_ (public libraries sometimes mix them up). They're not part of the same series, in that they don't deal with the same characters or even the same planets, just the same universe. _Forerunner Foray_ is actually 3rd in the Shan Lantee series (see _Storm Over Warlock_, _Ordeal in Otherwhere_), although it won't be apparent until you're well along in the book.

                          "Forerunner" is a term used to refer to long-dead civilizations, where 'long' is measured in millions of years rather than millenia. Forerunner artifacts are sometimes of immense value, particularly examples of technology that outstrip that of the current galactic civilization. In this universe, archeologists have to compete not only with legitimate government agencies over custody of their finds, but with the Guild, that shadowy, loose organization of the Galaxy's criminals.

                          The evening our story begins, Ziantha, a Guild Esper, ventures into the office of one of the many power-brokers who reside on the pleasure-planet Korwar. She's not there even to touch any of the valuable artwork - just to use her talent to identify specific computer memory cubes in his safe, and to copy their contents into her own memory without touching them, or leaving any trace. But while her defenses are down for the transfer, she is drawn to one of the artifacts - the ugly lump of rock on the coffee table, which is more than it seems.

                          Ziantha's superior, the Lady Yasa, organizes an expedition to trace the artifact back to its origins, during which Ziantha is drawn into its past.

                          This book provides a different view of life on Korwar (the starting point for several of Norton's science fiction novels), more Forerunner civilization(s), and a closer look at the Guild.

                          Some background information, for flavor: Korwar's capital city, during the Council/Confederation war mentioned in other books (e.g. _Dark Piper_) was the site of a refugee camp. After the war, those whose worlds had been destroyed (or traded away over the peace table), were trapped there, so it became the Dipple, a huge slum blighting the otherwise serene face of Korwar. Troy Horan (_Catseye_) and Niall Renfro (_Judgement on Janus_) were of the first generation, brought there as refugee children; Ziantha is of the next generation, born there.

                          Ziantha's superior, Lady Yasa, is an example of the interesting supporting cast. She identified Ziantha, then a street child on begging detail, as a potential sensitive, and rescued her from the Dipple. One of the few high-ranking females in the Guild, she operates behind a respectable (and quite real) cover as the operator of a powerful Salariki trading firm. (Did I mention that Yasa is a feline Salarika rather than a human? :) Aliens have crooks too. Equal opportunity organization, the Guild.)

                          If you like this sidelight on the Guild, you might want to try _The Zero Stone_, whose protagonist is the son of a respected Guild fence and appraiser.
                          Forerunner Foray
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                          • Forerunner artifact hurls heroine back through time
                          Forerunner Foray

                          Manufacturer: Ace
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                          Binding: Paperback
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                          Customer Reviews:

                          5 out of 5 stars Forerunner artifact hurls heroine back through time.......2005-08-29

                          Time was a very malleable dimension for the late author, Andre Norton. In "Forerunner Foray" (1973) her heroine, Ziantha twists and turns through multiple chambers of time as though crawling deeper and deeper into the curling interior of a nautilus shell. When she reaches time's claustrophobic center, Ziantha dies, is reborn, dies, and is reborn, all the while struggling to return to the only world she has known.

                          As a child on the luxury world of Korwar, Ziantha was rescued from an intergalactic refugee-camp-turned-slum called the Dipple. A member of the all-powerful Guild (Norton's version of the Mafia) discovered that the girl had supernormal talent, including the ability to 'read' objects, and he trains her up as a thief.

                          As the book opens, Ziantha has broken into the apartment of High Lord Jucundus, loaded to the gills with high-tech gizmos and, of course, her own esper abilities. She psychometrizes (reads) the microrecordings that she was sent to find and is about to leave the apartment, when she is almost felled by a psychic demand for her attention. It is a dusty lump of clay on Lord Jucundus's knick-knack table. Ziantha resists the urge to steal it, but the next morning she returns to a park next to the apartment building and apports (psychically transports) the ugly little object into her possession.

                          Her Guild masters discover Ziantha's extra-curricular thievery, and after their initial anger they become intrigued by the strange object which has psychically bonded itself to their errant apprentice. Buried within the clay is a Forerunner artifact called a focus-stone.

                          The alien artifact has an agenda of its own. It wishes to be reunited with its 'twin' and leads Ziantha and her masters to a burned-off planet, then hurtles the psychic back through time, into the body of a war slave who has been chained into her captor's tomb!

                          As she struggles to breathe, Ziantha-now-Vintra realizes that the corpse beside her is moving. Another psychic has been dragged through time by the focus-stone and dumped into the body of the deceased enemy general.

                          Ris Lantee, son of Shan Lantee of "Storm over Warlock" and "Ordeal in Otherwhere" fame is the valiant hero of "Forerunner Foray." He suffers an even worse fate than Ziantha in that he is transferred into the body of the dead warrior and ruler, Turan and must spent a large part of the novel keeping the corpse reanimated while he and Ziantha quest for the second focus-stone.

                          Ris-now-Turan is finally in such bad shape that Ziantha must make a solo quest further back into the burned-out planet's history in order to recover the second focus stone.

                          Now her ordeal truly begins.

                          This SF novel is fairly standard Norton except for her heroine's powerful to-the-death struggle in an ancient storm-wracked seahold. Ziantha tries to recover the alien artifact that will return her to her own time while her new alter-ego, D'Eyree attempts to save a whole world.

                          I think Norton realized what a powerful setting she had created in the drowning sea-hold of Nornath, as she used a very similar background in "Perilous Dreams" (1976).
                          4 PBs by Andre Norton: Storms of Victory, Forerunner Foray, Crystal Gryphon, X Factor
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                            4 PBs by Andre Norton: Storms of Victory, Forerunner Foray, Crystal Gryphon, X Factor
                            Andre Norton
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                            Binding: Paperback
                            ASIN: B000WH0I2Q

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                            4 Titles By Norton - Forerunner Foray - Ordeal in Otherwhere - Key Out of Time - The Time Traders
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                              4 Titles By Norton - Forerunner Foray - Ordeal in Otherwhere - Key Out of Time - The Time Traders
                              Andre Norton
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                              Forerunner Foray
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                                Forerunner Foray
                                Andre Norton
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                                Forerunner Foray
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                                • A very claustrophobic trip through time
                                Forerunner Foray

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                                5 out of 5 stars A very claustrophobic trip through time.......2005-09-05

                                Time was a very malleable dimension for the late author, Andre Norton. In "Forerunner Foray" (1973) her heroine, Ziantha twists and turns through multiple chambers of time as though crawling deeper and deeper into the curling interior of a nautilus shell. When she reaches time's claustrophobic center, Ziantha dies, is reborn, dies, and is reborn, all the while struggling to return to the only world she has known.

                                As a child on the luxury world of Korwar, Ziantha was rescued from an intergalactic refugee-camp-turned-slum called the Dipple. A member of the all-powerful Guild (Norton's version of the Mafia) discovered that the girl had supernormal talent, including the ability to 'read' objects, and he trains her up as a thief.

                                As the book opens, Ziantha has broken into the apartment of High Lord Jucundus, loaded to the gills with high-tech equipment and, of course, her own esper abilities. She psychometrizes (reads) the microrecordings that she was sent to find and is about to leave the apartment, when she is almost felled by a psychic demand for her attention. It is a dusty lump of clay on Lord Jucundus's knick-knack table. Ziantha resists the urge to steal it, but the next morning she returns to a park next to the apartment building and apports (psychically transports) the ugly little object into her possession.

                                Her Guild masters discover Ziantha's extra-curricular thievery, and after their initial anger they become intrigued by the strange object which has psychically bonded itself to their errant apprentice. Buried within the clay is a Forerunner artifact called a focus-stone.

                                The alien artifact has an agenda of its own. It wishes to be reunited with its 'twin' and leads Ziantha and her masters to a burned-off planet, then hurtles the psychic back through time, into the body of a war slave who has been chained into her captor's tomb!

                                As she struggles to breathe, Ziantha-now-Vintra realizes that the corpse beside her is moving. Another psychic has been dragged through time by the focus-stone and dumped into the body of the deceased enemy general.

                                Ris Lantee, son of Shan Lantee of "Storm over Warlock" and "Ordeal in Otherwhere" fame is the valiant hero of "Forerunner Foray." He suffers an even worse fate than Ziantha in that he is transferred into the body of the dead warrior and ruler, Turan and must spent a large part of the novel keeping the corpse reanimated while he and Ziantha quest for the second focus-stone.

                                Ris-now-Turan is finally in such bad shape that Ziantha must make a solo quest further back into the burned-out planet's history in order to recover the second focus stone.

                                Now her ordeal truly begins.

                                This SF novel is fairly standard Norton except for her heroine's powerful to-the-death struggle in an ancient storm-wracked seahold. Ziantha tries to recover the alien artifact that will return her to her own time while her new alter-ego, D'Eyree attempts to save a whole world.

                                I think Norton realized what a powerful scenario she had created in the drowning sea-hold of Nornath, as she used a very similar background in "Perilous Dreams" (1976).
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                                  Forerunner Foray
                                  Andre Norton
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                                    Forerunner Foray
                                    Andre Norton
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                                      Forerunner Foray
                                      Andre Norton
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                                      FORERUNNER FORAY - ACE 24620
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                                        Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women
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                                          Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women
                                          Serinity Young
                                          Manufacturer: Herder & Herder
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                                          An innovative, ecumenical sourcebook. Readings from the world's 'big seven'--Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism--accompany female-specific text from the Near East, Greece, and Rome of antiquity, as well as from Northern European religions, shamanism, smaller tribal religions and more recent alternative movements. --Publishers Weekly
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                                            Serinity, ed Young
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