Series: None
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0671578766
Publisher: Baen Books
Price: $6.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
Votes: 2
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0671578766
Publisher: Baen Books
Price: $6.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
Votes: 2
Description: PARADISE DOOMED
The ancient tales of European Man, carefully recorded by pious monks and hedge wizards alike, are insistent about the Western Isles.
One of the tales of Doubting Thomas, the apostle, has it that he Christianized these islands and stayed there until the end of his days. The Arthurian legends clearly state that Arthur's father, Uther, came from the Western Isles.
Lyonesse was a part of the Western Isles, as was the City of Ys, Avalon, and the Land of Dahout. Up until the time of the First Crusade, there are records of pilgrims visiting the holy sites of the Western Islands. The Icelandic Eddas make similar references. Modern sailors and travelers sometimes sight great, many-tiered cities near the ocean's horizon, but these people are rarely believed. It is easier for modern, technocentric man to believe in an optical illusion, the Fata Morgana.
This book is about two modern, hardheaded engineers who find the Western Islands.
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A departure from his earlier works, Frankowski's The Fata Morgana is a stand-alone story just as worthy of praise as any of his Conrad Stargard works. Another first-person-view story, The Fata Morgana follows the adventures of a middle-aged Detroit-born atheist named Treet, as he and his friend Adam, a big bear of a man(both engineers, go figure =P), discover the Western Isles on a very ill-fortuned yacht cruise.
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