"Mark A. Garland - Demonblade" - читать интересную книгу автора (Garland Mark A)

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ISBN: 0-671-87610-4


Cover art by Larry Elmore


First printing, July 1994


Typeset by Windhaven Press, Auburn, N.H.

Printed in the United States of America




Demon Blade
"Let me," Rosivok said. Abruptly he bent down and took up the Blade. He stood there holding it,
examining its shimmering steel, the beads of moisture rolling off of it. After a moment he shrugged.
"Nothing," he said.

"No," the wizard Frost agreed. "There should not be." He took a very deep breath—deciding he would
have to use his right hand, the left simply did not have the strength after the first disastrous try—and
reached toward the Subartan warrior. "Let me try once more."

Rosivok held the Blade out. Briefly, Frost closed his eyes. He pushed all thoughts of the Blade's powers,
as well as his own ideas about them, out of his mind, then spoke a minor spell to himself, one to keep his
magical energies turned inward, turned off, for now. He looked at the Blade again and reached, and
touched it. This time, after a moment, he gently smiled.
Praise forDorella


"The magical confrontations are exciting. . . . It's an intriguing first novel, odd and interesting, with some
wonderful and weird touches, a mix of fairy tale and sordid reality. . . ."


—Carolyn Cushman,Locus


"Nice touches throughout; I particularly enjoyed the indignant demon the protagonist persecutes briefly."


—Don D'Amassa,Science Fiction Chronicle