City At The Edge Of Time (Beyond Sanctuary) - Softcover

Janet Morris; Chris Morris

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9780671697877: City At The Edge Of Time (Beyond Sanctuary)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671697870 ISBN 13: 9780671697877

Publisher: Baen, 1988

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#5 in the Sacred Band series

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"There is no such place as this," Jihan breathed as their horses walked out of a copse onto a rise from which the city stood revealed. "Not in the world of men. There cannot be." Her throaty voice was troubled, her copper head raised to the distance -- to the white and shining city and the blinding sea beyond..Where the ground swept upward on the plain's far side, a curving waterway shimmered. Beyond it gleamed other waterways, like wheels within wheels, concentric circles joined by spokes that ringed the city as if she were their hub. The outermost rim of the wheel had sunk deep into the sea at the edge of time.."This city like a wheel, Riddler, what you you mean when you say it is stuck?".City at the Edge of TimePraise for THE SACRED BAND series:.""Janet Morris, Tempus (1987), and, with Chris Morris, Tempus Unbound (1989), The Sacred Band (2010)."A fantasy series about the Sacred Band of Stepsons, an elite army modeled on the fourth-century B.C.E. Sacred Band of Thebes. The stories explore the fraught personal relationships of mixed hetero- and homosexual troops, only sometimes paired, as they fight for their commander, the immortal Tempus. Morris includes archaeological and historical details, from physical items to social practices, religion, and philosophy, to create a fantasy world that is, in many ways, more historically accurate than many popular accounts of antiquity." -- Robert W. Cape, Jr, in Classical Traditions in Science Fiction, Brett M. Rogers & Benjamin Eldon Stevens, eds., Oxford University Press."... much more than great Heroic Fantasy: it is classic literature, filled with sub-plots, a fine cast of well-drawn characters, insight and wisdom and recurring themes of honor, faith, brotherhood and love." -- Black Gate Magazine.

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JANET & CHRIS MORRIS."Fantasy's power couple," Janet and Chris Morris, have written hit songs, bestselling fiction, nonfiction, op/eds, policy papers, and other wonky contributions to national security and the anima mundi. They have edited more than 20 anthologies, including the award-winning Heroes in Hell series. Their long-running heroic fantasy series, the Sacred Band of Stepsons, includes City at the Edge of Time, the 5th novel in its canon. Read it alone or in its chronological position as part of the Sacred Band series, and recall how heroic fiction enriches our lives.Perseid Press

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