Our next meetings will be on

Thursday 7 and 28 June at 12.00

in the Claverton Rooms
when we will be discussing

Master of the Five Magics

by Lyndon Hardy (1980)

Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five arts of magic. As
such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he
saved her during the demon-inspired siege of her frontier castle. But aspire he did. His quest
forced him from one exacting branch of magic to another, with the rewards he earned always
going to others. Finally, only one branch of wizardry remained - the great, almost lost art of
controlling demons. It was then that he learned of the ancient plot behind his rise - and faced
the greatest danger any man could dare! Alodar's quest is not only a stirring tale of
adventure, but also one of the most logical detailings of the laws of magic ever to appear in
fantasy.
– Béla Selmeci

If you would like to come along please contact:

Yvonne Aburrow, ext 6022 or email Y.Aburrow@bath.ac.uk

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsya/sfrg/

Previous books: Empire of Bones by Liz Williams, Virtual Light by William Gibson,
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg, The Player of Games by Iain M Banks, Timequake by
Kurt Vonnegut, The Telling by Ursula Le Guin, The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley
Robinson, The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, The Extremes by Christopher Priest, American
Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, House Atreides by Brian Herbert
& Kevin J Anderson, Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon), Stranger in a
Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, Monstrous Regiment by
Terry Pratchett, Learning the World by Ken MacLeod, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, The garments of Caean by Barrington J
Bayley, Where late the sweet birds sang by Kate Wilhelm, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde