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'In Shadows in the Stone Jack Dann creates a fully-realized, living, breathing universe, a universe where the Vatican is in Venice, Jehovah is really a lesser god known as the Demiurge, and the magus John Dee’s experiments with angels are true and repeatable. Here you’ll discover a nun who has the expertise and agility of a Ninja warrior, the reincarnated snake goddess known as the Daughter of Light, the famed Florentine magician Pico Della Mirandola, a young magus who is part stone, the Knights Templar of the Crimson Cross, the sapphire tablet: the most secret of the Dead Sea scrolls, and a 15th Century dirigible kept aloft by imprisoned souls. Here you’ll find wild adventure and Machiavellian subtlety, treason and heroism, love and carnality, joy and loss, magic, machines, the cosmic machinations of angels, demons, gods, and half-gods; and the absolutely breathtaking vistas that are their battle grounds.
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'Join Jack Dann’s protagonists—Louisa Morgan and Lucian Ben-Hananiah—and the fellowship of The Dark Companions in their apocalyptic battle against the Demiurge—described in the forbidden Gnostic texts as the demon god Yaldabaoth… and known to us as Jehovah.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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AUSTRALIAN FANTASY
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , March no. 105 2021; (p. 86-96)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel ; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; Dog 2020 single work children's fiction ; Hollow Empire 2020 single work novel ; The Spiral 2021 single work novel ; Flyaway 2020 single work novella ; The Rain Heron 2020 single work novel -
Sensual Adventures with Old Heresies
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 104 2020; (p. 92-94)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel -
Books Arrive in the Mail
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 28)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel ; Orphan Warriors 2019 single work novel ; Sibling Assassins 2020 single work novel -
[Review] Shadows in the Stone
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 131 2020;
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel
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[Review] Shadows in the Stone
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 131 2020;
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel -
Books Arrive in the Mail
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 28)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel ; Orphan Warriors 2019 single work novel ; Sibling Assassins 2020 single work novel -
Sensual Adventures with Old Heresies
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 104 2020; (p. 92-94)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel -
AUSTRALIAN FANTASY
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , March no. 105 2021; (p. 86-96)
— Review of Shadows in the Stone 2019 single work novel ; The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020 single work novel ; Dog 2020 single work children's fiction ; Hollow Empire 2020 single work novel ; The Spiral 2021 single work novel ; Flyaway 2020 single work novella ; The Rain Heron 2020 single work novel
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cItaly,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Venice,
cItaly,cWestern Europe, Europe,