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The Fellowship of the Talisman (Novel)
Series: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0891905219
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
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The Fellowship of the Talisman by Clifford D. Simak

Description: Through a wilderness blighted by horror rode Duncan, son of the noble House of Standish. Astride his mighty war horse, he was pursuing a quest vital to the future of civilization.

With him went a strange fellowship: a brawny man-at-arms, a banshee, a hermit, a ghost, a turncoat demon, a goblin and a witch. Opposing them came forces of supernatural malig nancy. Aiding them was a girl with the blood of enchanters in her veins who was mounted on an ancient griffin.

And all this takes place in England in the 1970s.. .

But in the world of The Fellowship of the Talisman, the Dark Ages never ended There had been no Renaissance, no exploration of the lands across the sea; and men lived much as they did a thousand or more years ago. Some historians believed this situation was the result of the terror and devastation called the Evil, which broke out every five centuries, laying waste first to Macedonia, then to Iberia, and finally to a large part of England.

Duncan Standish had been sent on a dangerous mission which could give humanity an instrument against this Evil and rekindle the spirit of mankind. It was through a land where the monstrous servants of the Evil held sway that Duncan and his oddly assorted followers had to pass. The ghost, though erratic, was an excellent spy; and Snoopy, the goblin, knew many of the enemy's weak points. And with the aid of an ancient sorcerer's talisman which seemed to guard Duncan and his band from peril, they were safe... for the moment.


NOTE: the ISBN is from the 1992 hardcover reprint edition.

Also in this series are A Choice of Gods, A Heritage of Stars, All Flesh Is Grass, Cemetery World, City, Cosmic Engineers, Destiny Doll, Enchanted Pilgrim, Highway of Eternity, Mastodonia (UK title Catface), Our Children's Children, Out of Their Minds, Project Pope, Ring Around the Sun: A Story of Tomorrow, Shakespeare's Planet, Special Deliverance, The Goblin Reservation, The Trouble with Tycho, The Visitors, The Werewolf Principle, They Walked Like Men, Time and Again, Time Is The Simplest Thing, Way Station, Where the Evil Dwells, Why Call Them Back From Heaven? Return to the Clifford D. Simak page.

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