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Amhuxh.396 net.sf-lovers utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!lute Tue Apr 20 16:11:12 1982 THE ONE TREE GOOD NEWS!! Finally, after an eight month delay, Stephen Donaldson's Second book, of the Second ILLEARTH TRILOGY, has come out in hardback. The cost is about $14.00. If you want it in paperback, you'll have to wait a year.

For those of you who aren't sure you know about this work, The first trilogy is comprised of these three books: THE WOUNDED LAND THE ILLEARTH WAR THE POWER THAT PRESERVES

It is about a man, just strting out a family and a promising writing career, who suddenly contracts leprosy. His wife runs away and takes their child. He is treated with fear and loathing by the townspeople and becomes the most annoying, self-pitying, close-minded anti-hero you've ever seen. By accident he is transported to another world which is at the medieval stage of development, however, magic works here. He comes at a time when the ."

I'll stop here. OOPS! By the way the first book of the first trilogy is LORD FOUL'S BANE.

The second trilogy begins with THE WOUNDED LAND. Twenty years have passed in real-time for our hero, Thomas Covenant, but 7,000 years have passed in the land since the end of his last visit in the last trilogy. I guarantee you, if you like Tolkien in a much more adult setting, you will find these trilogies spell-binding (no pun intended)! Be warned though, the first 40-60 pages of the first book (LFB) are tough, but crucial to understanding leprosy and why Covenant acts the way he does in all the following sojourns.

Enjoy! I promise you won't regret it.

Jim Collymore Bell Labs, Piscataway, N.J.

P.S. I hear rumors that there is a third, and final trilogy planned after this one.

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