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Baines is a filthy rich arms dealer and connoisseur of destruction. Ware is the greatest living black magician. They will work together to throw the world into chaos. And not even the efforts of the white magicians of Monte Albano will stop them.
Themes & subjects
black magicsorceryArmageddonAmerican Science fictionFantasy fictionDevil
Setting
ItalyWritten in 1967 but timing is vague. Could be any year from the present to the near future.
About the author
James Blish
23 May 1921 – 30 July 1975
Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. He married literary agent Virginia Kidd in 1947. He worked for the Tobacco Institute from 1962-1968. In 1968, he emigrated to England. Between 1967 and his death in 1975, he became the first author to write short story collections based on the TV series Star Trek. In total, he wrote 11 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the series, as we…
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