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Threshold
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Product Description
The Master of the Magi, a young and ambitious man, ready to do anything for power, sees the glassworker slave Tirzah as a plaything, a trifle to relieve the tensions of the day. He senses that under her placid façade Tirzah is hiding something, but try as he may to see beneath her surface, she remains an enigma.
What he does not know is that her secret is the knowledge of forbidden magic. That she senses the inherent power in glass and can communicate with it-and that the glass in Threshold screams to her in pain.
For it knows what neither Tirzah nor any of the Magi suspect. That something waits in Infinity, watching, biding its time, and when the final glass plate is laid and the capstone cemented in blood, it plans to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod...
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1050483 in Books
- Published on: 2003-09-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Douglass presents an original variation on the theme of the man, or in this case, magus, who must undo the harm he unwittingly put in motion. On the plains of Ashod rises the great, glass-encased pyramid Threshold, a mathematical and architectural wonder that has taken the Magi and multitudes of slaves eight generations to build. Nearly completed, it awaits only its capstone. Meanwhile, the glassworker Tirzah, a slave, hides a secret from her masters: she can communicate with glass, and has heard the glass in Threshold scream in pain. The glass knows what Tirzah can but feel and the Magi wouldn't believe: that, more than a building, Threshold is a gateway. When it is completed, something from another dimension will come through it. Already, it has started taking lives. Can Tirzah and her fellow slaves halt the construction? Will Boaz, the magus whose alternating kindness and sternness to Tirzah leave her hoping but confused, accept the truth before the capstone is placed? Full of original touches, this is very good storytelling. Frieda Murray
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Review
A stand-alone novel by the author of The Wayfarer Redemption series--"Sara Douglass is a powerful voice in high fantasy that readers can equate to the likes of Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey."
From the Inside Flap
"Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create sweeping epics and the storyteller`s gift that makes readers love her." -Locus
"Sara Douglass is a powerful voice in high fantasy that readers can equate to the likes of Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Anne McCaffrey."
-Romantic Times
HADES` DAUGHTER
"Douglass once again combines mythology, fantasy, magic, and romance to produce a consistent, well-rounded story full of seriously flawed characters both abhorrently evil and enthrallingly empathetic."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Combining history, myth, and fantasy, Sara Douglass re-creates the Aegean world and a pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page."
-Romantic Times Book Club (4 ½stars)
STARMAN
"Exciting writing with emotional highs and lows! Ms. Douglass has created a
mystical world populated with many vividly portrayed races."
-Romantic Times (4 ½stars)
ENCHANTER
"With three races, licit and illicit loves, prophecy, fraternal hatred, and enough battles for several campaigns, Douglass has whipped up enough raw material to avoid shortchanging readers throughout her vast undertaking."
-Booklist
THE WAYFARER REDEMPTION
"This is storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic, and romance."
-Romantic Times
"An exciting fantasy epic that is like the beginning of a roller-coaster ride. It goes up the incline ever so slow, but at the apex it takes off at the speed of light."
-Midwest Book Review
