Queenmagic Kingmagic (signed by the author)

Watson, Ian

ISBN 10: 0575038837 / ISBN 13: 9780575038837

Published by Victor Gollancz: London, 1986

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SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Seller Inventory # 00142

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Queenmagic Kingmagic (signed by the author)
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575038837
• ISBN 13: 9780575038837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

As two kingdoms wage a magical war according to strictly prescribed rules similar to those of chess, Pedino and Sara, two enemy squires, fall in love and seek to escape to other, even stranger worlds

From Publishers Weekly

That cool, cerebral Watson should have written a chess novel seems inevitable, in hindsight. His characters have often been obsessed with learning the underlying rules of their worldsand transcending them. Here the kingdoms of Bellogard and Chorny are locked in a perpetual magical war that gives structure, reason and energy to their medieval society. The protagonist, pawn-squire Pedino of Bellogard, is forced to reexamine his assumptions and loyalties when he falls in love with his opposite number, Sara of Chorny. In escaping, they visit other realms, including a version of Monopoly that comments satirically on the 1980s economic scene. Although the pattern here is familiar from previous Watson novels (Deathhunter, Converts), this is lighter, more textured and more engagingly peopled.
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