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Lädt ... Iron Chamber of Memoryvon John C. Wright
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The small island of Sark in the English Channel is the last feudal government in Europe. By law, no motor vehicles run on the road, and no lights burn at night. Only the lord of the island may keep hounds.Into the strange, high house of Wrongerwood wanders Hal Landfall, penniless graduate student at Magdalen College, looking for his missing friend Manfred Hathaway, who has just inherited the lordship, the house, and the island. What he finds instead is the lovely, green-eyed Laurel, a beautiful girl from Cornwall who is Manfred's wife-to-be. There is said to be a haunted chamber in the house, erected by Merlin in ancient days, where a man who enters remembers his true and forgotten self. When Hal and Laurel step in, they remember, with fear and wonder, a terrible truth they must forget again when they step outside. John C. Wright is one of the living grandmasters of science fiction and the author of THE GOLDEN AGE, AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND, and CITY BEYOND TIME: TALES OF THE FALL OF METACHRONOPOLIS, to name just three of his exceptional books. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and in 2015, he was nominated for a record 5 Hugo Awards. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Iron Chamber of Memory is a gripping tale of supernatural suspense. The story is reminiscent, but in no way derivative, of classics like CS Lewis' THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH and Charles Williams' WAR IN HEAVEN. Wright's evoking of the otherworldly dimension that lies just behind our senses is done as creepily convincing as Frank E. Peretti's best writing, to name a contemporary in the same genre. In fact, while Wright's IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY's Isle of Sark and Peretti's THIS PRESENT DARKNESS' town of Ashton are a world apart as settings go, that world between them is the one and the same plane of spiritual warfare where their respective characters discover that their seemingly ordinary and even banal lives are but the surface of who they truly are, and that they live their lives in a universe much larger, richer and meaningful than they had ever imagined.
The focus of IRON CHAMBER is narrower than that of PRESENT DARKNESS, but it reaches deeper into the past of legend and myth because of it, I think. CHAMBER'S combatants are fewer in number than found in PRESENT DARKNESS and the stakes are not as global, which, for me, made it a more intimate tale. And that is as it should be because IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY is also a love story, specifically the tale of a love triangle wherein is explored the love between friends, man and woman and that greater love with which one lays down one's life for another. (