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- Release Date: May 03, 2011
- Pages: 384
- ISBN: 0451463935
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The Council of Shadows
A Novel of the Shadowspawn
Adrian Brézé defied his own dark heritage as a near-purebred Shadowspawn for years, until his power-hungry sister Adrienne kidnapped his human lover Ellen.
Now, Adrienne is dead, and the Council of Shadows is gathering its strength. To stop the Council from launching an apocalypse, Adrian and Ellen must ally with the Brotherhood, a resistance group dedicated to breaking the Council’s hold on humankind…by any means necessary.
In the coming confrontation, Adrian must fight not only the members of the Council but also his own nature-and, as he will come to suspect, traitors within the Brotherhood itself…
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Richard Foss, for help with the fine details of food, wine and restaurants and invaluable hints about Paris and other locations.
To Kier Salmon, for all sorts of help throughout construction!
To Marino Panzanelli and Marco Pertoni for help with Italian, and also the other members of the Stirling listserve.
To Melinda Snodgrass, Emily Mah, George R.R. Martin, Walter Jon Williams, Vic Milan, John J. Miller, Jan Stirling and Ian Tregellis of Critical Mass, for constant help and advice as the book was under construction.
To Jack Williamson, Fred Pohl, Sprague de Camp and other Golden Agers for inspiration; and Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen.
To Joe’s Diner, who make the best Greek salad in Santa Fe, and to Roland and Sheila Richter, proprietors, who put up with the weird guy in the far booth cackling and talking to himself as he typed. And to Lisa, favorite waitress.
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