Aegypt (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) - Softcover

Crowley, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057508300X ISBN 13: 9780575083004

Publisher: Gollancz, 2013

Synopsis

There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments.

In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Ægypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to Ægypt ...

Shortlisted for the WORLD FANTASY and ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDs.

About this title

About the Author

John Crowley was born in Maine in 1942 and grew up in Vermont, Kentucky and Indiana before moving to New York and taking up work in documentary films - an occupation he still pursues alongside his writing. THE DEEP, his first science fiction novel, was published in 1975 and was followed by BEASTS, ENGINE SUMMER and GREAT WORK OF TIME. With the publication of LITTLE, BIG in 1981 he won the WORLD FANTASY AWARD and was shortlisted for the HUGO, NEBULA and BSFA AWARDs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057508300X
• ISBN 13: 9780575083004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448