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A Dark God Laughing (Dream and a Lie) (Paperback)

by Fiona McGavin (Author), Wendy Darling (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 284 pages
  • Publisher: Immanion Press (1 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904853226
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904853220
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,204,412 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The world is changing. In the bleak northern city of Zoelon, they burn witches on Wintertide's Eve amongst the smoke and squalor of the factories. And in the east, a dark power is stirring and growing stronger. Times are dangerous for one such as Alix Reste, for Alix sees the future and he carries within him a destructive power that is beyond anything he can understand or control. Pursued through the smog dark city by a strange admirer and haunted by his own nightmares and visions, Alix begins to realise that he is a pawn in a much larger game. But Alix has secrets of his own, and he is not always what he seems. As Wintertide's Eve draws relentlessly closer, the skies rain poison, and Alix must decide where to pledge his allegiance and his own strange powers.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An intriguing debut, 7 Sep 2005
By Ventura Angelo (Brescia, Lombardia Italy) - See all my reviews
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In the industrial sector of a city named Zoelon, in a sort of paleocapitalistic epoch, lives a small, frightened creature, Alix. He works for an insignificant sum in a factory, sleeps in the factory dormitories, suffer from cold and industrial pollution, an his life is worse than Oliver Twists'. We are not in Dickensian London, though, we are in a strange alternate reality where "Westerners" have conquered the lands that were once of races like the Alari, blonde attenuated humans like Alix, and the Enteri, mysterious androgynous creatures. But Alix is not what he seems, a frightened little thing: we soon learn he has a past, thah haunts him with nightmares, and that he's hidden dangerous powers, that those who wants to overthrow the bigoted, obsessively zealous ruling class of Zoelon. And an Enteri is pursuing Alix, stalkng him, bringing him to the point in which he has to make choices. And while poison falls from the skies on the city, brought by evil flying creatures, and a holy war against the southern Draels is preparing, Alix will make his choice.
I quite like this novel,its bizarre mixing of proto-industrial oppression and maedieval witch-hunting appears forboddingly dreary, but there's something else at stake, the clash of religious and socialsystems, the strange, tragic people of the Enteri, represented well in the characters of Twilight and Midnight. There's a flavor of "The Prince of Nothing" or R.S. Bakker in the construction of the world, with its schools of magic and cruel Gods. I think Fiona McGavin is making a significant contribute to Dark Fantasy literature, whit this trilogy of which "A Dream and a Lie" is the first volume. We'll await eagerly for the next!
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