Doctor Mirabilis
de James Blish
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Xlib/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 039606325X
- ISBN 13
- 9780396063254
- Librería
-
Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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Minimal library distinctions, pocket removed, appears as lightly read, unblemished copy in DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.
With Preface to the American Edition, Table of Contents, Dramatis Personae, Notes. "This novel is volume I of a trilogy with the overall title 'After Such Knowledge'. A historical novel based on the life of Friar Roger Bacon, one of the great scholars of the Middle Ages. remarkable life of Friar Roger Bacon in the 14th century.
Blish created a trilogy, each volume of which dealt with an aspect of the price of knowledge, & gave it the overall name of After Such Knowledge (from a T.S. Eliot quote). The 1st published, A Case of Conscience (winner of the '59 Hugo Award as well as 2004/1953 Retrospective Hugo for Best Novella), showed a Jesuit priest confronted with an intelligent alien species, apparently unfallen, which he eventually concludes must be a Satanic fabrication. The 2nd, Doctor Mirabilis, is a historical novel about the medieval proto-scientist Roger Bacon. The 3rd, actually two short novels, Black Easter & The Day After Judgment, was written using the assumption that the ritual magic for summoning demons as described in grimoires actually worked. In that book, a powerful industrialist & arms merchant arranges to call up demons in the midst of a modern world crisis, resulting in nuclear war & the destruction of civilization. Black Easter is devoted to that element of the plot; The Day After Judgment is devoted to exploring the consequences of the destruction of the world, with an extraordinary ending in both narrative & theological terms.
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- Librería
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- #2021-20119
- Título
- Doctor Mirabilis
- Autor
- James Blish
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Xlib
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good-
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Unstated, Presumed 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 039606325X
- ISBN 13
- 9780396063254
- Editorial
- Dodd, Mead & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1971
- Páginas
- 335
- Palabras clave
- Historical Fiction
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