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Jack of Shadows

Roger Zelazny · 1971 · Novel

Setting: secondary world (tidally locked)

Synopsis

An overpowering adventure of a world half in darkness, half in light... The Earth no longer rotates. Sciences rule the dayside of the globe, Magic rules the World of Night. And Jack of Shadows, Shadowjack the Thief, who broke the Compact and duped the Lord of High Dudgeon; who was beheaded in Igles and rose again from the Dung Pits of Glyve; who drank the blood of a vampire and swallowed a stone -- Shadowjack walks in silence and in shadows to seek vengeance on his enemies.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Science fictionFiction, science fiction, generalFiction, general

isfdb_id: 1693

openlibrary_id: OL13987W

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