Somehow, I just never thought to connect British occultism and the early days of JPL! ...I think something in my head just broke.
He really feels like Alan Moore invented him. The fulminate of mercury is just the icing. As it were.
But the plot hammers a bit too much at a favourite theme of Duane's: the Lone Power (whichever universe it may be) comes to take out the favoured city, and the lone wizard/small group stand against incalculable odds...
Check. Ah, well. I had mixed feelings about To Visit the Queen after The Book of Night with Moon, so I may hold off a while longer. I do not consider myself a Duane completist since I drifted away from the original series after A Wizard Abroad.
(. . . Is Damon Runyon a significant part of the plot, or is he just there for local color? I could see the importance of words to him being both poignant and resonant in the world of the Speech, or there could just be a lot of present tense.)
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He really feels like Alan Moore invented him. The fulminate of mercury is just the icing. As it were.
But the plot hammers a bit too much at a favourite theme of Duane's: the Lone Power (whichever universe it may be) comes to take out the favoured city, and the lone wizard/small group stand against incalculable odds...
Check. Ah, well. I had mixed feelings about To Visit the Queen after The Book of Night with Moon, so I may hold off a while longer. I do not consider myself a Duane completist since I drifted away from the original series after A Wizard Abroad.
(. . . Is Damon Runyon a significant part of the plot, or is he just there for local color? I could see the importance of words to him being both poignant and resonant in the world of the Speech, or there could just be a lot of present tense.)