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Summary: Very Enjoyable and Unique
Review: An interesting look at a world through the eyes of a character who functions as a Deus ex Machina. I enjoyed it.
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Summary: The existential classic...
Review: If you know John Brunner's other work, well, this isn't like that. Traveller in Black is a collection of several mid-length stories that fit together in a progression. The nameless eponymous traveller, an agent of order, goes about imprisoning various chaotic entities and granting certain wishes. This works on several levels to give you allegories for the unexamined life, as well as a gripping adventure yarn.In some ways, this book is a bookend to Larry Niven's "The Magic Goes Away" (and various sequels, etc.). The flavor and style is similar, although this book is very different. In any event, this is one of those touchstone books of fantasy: you'll see where other writers (including Niven's works cited above!) have "borrowed" some of the dazzling images in Brunner's classic. This gem is a great read and I recommend it highly.
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Summary: This is the true essence of mysticism
Review: The book was extemely intresting in everyway. I think I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to "think" more about the world around them.
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Summary: This is the true essence of mysticism
Review: The book was extemely intresting in everyway. I think I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to "think" more about the world around them.
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A being with a singular nature ...
Review: The eponymous traveller winds his way through a strange and bizarre world, maybe of the future, maybe of the past, 'tidying up' the chaotic beings he finds there - imprisoning capricious and vicious elementals, punishing the wicked and granting the wishes of the high- and low- born. .. but none of the recipients of the wishes get *exactly* what they want ...
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