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Sign of the Labrys
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Like others who withstood the pandemic, Sam Sewell lives in a subterranean shelter. The vast catacombs were built before the military's biological weapon leaked out, killing nine out of ten people and leaving the survivors so traumatized that they can barely tolerate each other's company. So it's quite peculiar that some government agents seem to think that Sam lives with a woman, Despoina, who's suspected of conducting germ warfare. Pressured by the agents to locate Despoina, Sam must literally go underground to discover the truth about a hidden world of witchcraft and secret rituals.
This Wiccan-themed science fiction novel was cited by Gary Gygax as an inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons. Enthusiasts of the role-playing game will recognize the forerunner of Castle Greyhawk and its labyrinthine setting of multiple levels connected by secret passages. Other readers will savor the fantasy on its own terms, as the poetic recounting of an otherworldly mystery.
This Wiccan-themed science fiction novel was cited by Gary Gygax as an inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons. Enthusiasts of the role-playing game will recognize the forerunner of Castle Greyhawk and its labyrinthine setting of multiple levels connected by secret passages. Other readers will savor the fantasy on its own terms, as the poetic recounting of an otherworldly mystery.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Don't know why I've been obsessed with this book, but I've read it probably 20 or 30 times. I enjoy the beginning of the book where the protagonist continues to descend into the various levels of this dystopian world. without wanting to spoil the book for those who haven't read it, I can hint that after the hero returns from level "H" or level "I" the book does begin to lose steam, but that's only after I read it about 10 times. The concepts the author puts forward in 1963 are strangely familiar today, and her book in some ways resembles, in structure, today's fantasy video games with their many levels and history/sci fiction mingling with the paranormal. Highly recommend.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting concept for phantasy, involving Minoan antiquities. Don't forget that this book appeared shortly after Mary Renault's two big hits in this subject-area. Unfortunately, Ms St. Clair neither developed the concept philosophically nor -- unlike the more spirited Ms Renault -- told a very compellking tale
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An early distopian novel in which a man attempts to escape a society resembling ancient Crete, with a very graphic minotaur in charge. The Minotaur is a quasi government entity the FBY, who are intent on killing Sam, our hero who, like everyone else, lives in a labyrinth of underground apartments, with rigorously controlled entrances and exits. Like Logan, Sam escapes with a cool chick to confront an unknown future.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book has a compressed elegance sadly absent from the current overstuffed fiction scene: it does the job, and then stops. It does not tell you what it us going to tell you, tell it to you, and then tell you more than once what you've been told, on and on, for three or ten or more volumes. I should point out one very obvious point that is never mentioned in the critical literature I have seen: the story tracks that of Dante's Inferno, something that becomes clear enough by the time the hero reaches Level I, and is emphasized with a final resolving chord in the last sentences of the book.