An Eyewitness Account of the End of the World
Not since the Odyssey by the Greek poet Homer has there been such a rousing adventure on the high seas, not since the celebrated comic book 300 such noble torsoes and dashing deeds, not since Scarlet O'Hara such an intrepid heroine as the Trojan princess and pythoness Cassandra. Abducted from her ravaged homeland by the cruel warlord Agamemnon, Cassandra needs all her beauty and guile to survive the perils of the Aegean Sea, but she is able to do so with the help of a modern-day Ulysses—the Author Himself, an aged writer transported back into an Age of Pagan Rites!
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Product ReviewDigestible a chapter at a time. Would probably make a passable "thinking-man's porno" if anyone ever wanted to do the movie. Didn't particularly care for it, but you don't know if you don't try.
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Product ReviewDisch is not normally my cup of tea. I tend to prefer more upbeat fiction, and when I first finished this, I thought to myself "If I want to read a depressing tale with Cassandra in it, I'll just reread FIREBARAND by Marion Zimmer Bradley." But that's unfair. This story is thought-provoking. We live in a Golden Age, my friends--or the tail end of one (it's hard to tell while living through it). But this is the first time the human race has had the power to destroy the entire world, and not just a civilization. At the end of our Golden Age, I hope civilization is all we destroy, for surely another one will inevitably arise. Good job.
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