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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 804.1 | Zelazny | ELRIC::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Tue Jun 20 1989 13:13 | 15 |
| _Creatures_of_Light_and_Darkness_ by Roger Zelazny.
Its about a "superior" race who assume the roles of various Egyptian Dieties
and have come to believe themselves to actually be those deities.
On that level it is similar to _Lord_of_Light_ by Zelazny for the Hindu
pantheon, but LoL is better.
BTW, the two are really not similar at all, other than being loosely based
on a particular pantheon.
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| 804.2 | Falling Woman | SQM::MCCAFFERTY | | Tue Jun 20 1989 14:49 | 5 |
| Another that is not Egyptian but you might find interesting is The
Falling Woman by Pat Murphy which combines modern day archaeology
with Mayan mysticism.
- John
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| 804.3 | Powers and Rice... | LDYBUG::LAVEY | X never ever marks the spot. | Tue Jun 20 1989 18:57 | 15 |
| Tim Powers' _The Anubis Gates_ is an interesting read. It's set
primarily in the early nineteenth century, and combines (quite an
interesting list!): time travel, Romantic literature and historic
figures out of the Romantic period (Coleridge and Byron),
gypsies, lycanthropy, Egyptian rituals, "unions" of beggars, and
other stuff.
I haven't read this one (yet), but look for the trade paperback
of Anne Rice's latest book, _The Mummy, Or, Ramses the Damned_. I
believe the basic premise is that Ramses the pharoah is/was
another type of immortal being, similar to the vampires in Rice's
Vampire Trilogy. I don't know how much of the book focuses
specifically on the time period when Ramses ruled though.
-- Cathy
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| 804.4 | Pharaohs in Space | SNOC02::SKENNAR | | Tue Jun 20 1989 19:37 | 10 |
| Re: .1 & .2
Thank you both very much for responding.
More, please ....
Marilyn
(down
under)
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| 804.6 | Anubis Gates | CSC32::C_OUIMETTE | Wampeters and Foma | Thu Jun 22 1989 17:26 | 5 |
| A second vote for "The Anubis Gates". This was a lot of fun, one of
those books I wish I could read again for the first time....
Chuck
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| 804.7 | Eric von who? | POLAR::LACAILLE | There's a madness to my method | Mon Jun 26 1989 16:35 | 5 |
|
How about 'Chariots of the God's'....oh thats right...thats
not fiction right? ;-)
Charlie
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| 804.8 | | WMOIS::B_REINKE | If you are a dreamer, come in.. | Fri Jun 30 1989 13:04 | 4 |
| Andre Norton has done at least one book with an Eygptian theme.
I'll check at home and see if I can find the title.
Bonnie
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| 804.9 | Wraiths of Time | BUFFER::SOWEN | Oh, any name- Algernon- for example. | Fri Jun 30 1989 13:23 | 8 |
| re -.1
I think a title of an Andre Norton Egyptian-type novel is Wraiths of
Time. I last read it five years ago, and as far as I remember, it has
something to do with a woman and some mysterious museum artifacts.
I read it a few times- it's pretty enjoyable.
-Sandy
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| 804.10 | | WMOIS::B_REINKE | If you are a dreamer, come in.. | Fri Jun 30 1989 13:58 | 5 |
| Sandy,
That's the book I was thinking of! Thankyou.
Bonnie
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| 804.11 | Blossom Culp | ATSE::WAJENBERG | This area zoned for twilight. | Wed Jul 12 1989 11:04 | 12 |
| There's "Blossom Culp and the Mummy's Curse" (or something like that)
by Richard Peck. This is a fantasy for teens, set in 1914. The
heroine and narrator is Blossom Culp, a school-girl/street-urchin in
the Maerican midwest. She is also the heroine of "Ghosts I Have Been"
and "The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp," and she appears in a
supporting role in "The Ghost Belonged to Me."
Blossom has Second Sight, and often finds herself rubbing elbows with
unhappy ghosts, in this case the ka of a desecrated Egyptian mummy that
was abandonned by a circus when it was chased out of town.
Earl Wajenberg
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| 804.12 | Tetrarch | MOSAIC::MAXSON | Repeal Gravity | Tue Jul 25 1989 17:09 | 15 |
| A very odd, very enticing book is "The Tetrarch" by Alex Comfort (?),
a bizzare mythology involving an alternate world incorporating
Early Civilization lifetyles with advanced psychological technology.
In particular, "Mandalas" are moire-patterned drawings which induce a
psychological state in the viewer - some are used as weapons!
Lots of neat, imaginative ideas in this book frustratingly webbed
together by a somewhat thin plot.
I don't think you will recommend this book for a Hugo when you finish
it, but the imagination and settings involved should indeed be worth
a read.
Mark M, Speaker for the Not-Feeling-Too-Well.
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