Ο άρχοντας της αβύσσου

by Donald Tyson, Σοφία Λειβαδοπούλου (Translator)

Η αντίστροφη μέτρηση έχει ήδη αρχίσει...
Κεντρικό πρόσωπο ο Τζον Ντι, ο μεγαλύτερος μάγος του Δυτικού κόσμου και έμπιστος της βασίλισσας Ελισάβετ, ο οποίος καλείται να σώσει τη χώρα από την ισπανική απειλή. Είναι όμως και ο μόνος που έχει τη δύναμη να αποτρέψει το ανίερο σχέδιο των διαβολικών οπαδών του Έκπτωτου. Ενωχιανοί άγγελοι και δαίμονες της αβήσσου μάχονται πάνω από τις ψυχές της ανθρωπότητας και ένας άνθρωπος στέκεται ανάμεσα σε παράδεισο και κόλαση.
Μια ξέφρενη κούρσα με το χρόνο ξεκινά...

Genres: Fantasy, Occult

461 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Donald Tyson is a Canadian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Early in life he was drawn to science by an intense fascination with astronomy, building a telescope by hand when he was eight. He began university seeking a science degree, but became disillusioned with the aridity and futility of a mechanistic view of the universe and shifted his major to English. After graduating with honors he has pursued a writing career.

Now he devotes his life to the attainment of a complete gnosis of the art of magic in theory and practice. His purpose is to formulate an accessible system of personal training composed of East and West, past and present, that will help the individual discover the reason for one's existence and a way to fulfill it.

Reviews

[Vicky Ziliaskopoulou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Καλό ήταν, δεν μπορώ να πω. Όσον αφορούσε το "θρησκευτικό" κομμάτι του ήταν πολύ καλό, αν και προσωπικά δεν ενθουσιάζομαι με τις ανθρώπινες ενσαρκώσεις των Θεών, αλλά δεν με πείραξε τόσο. Το βρήκα να υστερεί όμως στην περιγραφή μαχών όπως και στην παρουσίαση των ηρώων του, δεν τους συμπάθησα καθόλου, τους βασάνιζαν και εμένα δεν με ένοιαζε.
Αξίζει όμως επειδή δεν είναι εύκολο να βρεις βιβλία με τέτοια θεματολογία.

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Historically based occult detective story. Look up john Dee or Edward Kelly on Wikipedia... AWESOME book.

[Nancy Oakes · Rating 3 out of 5]

According to the author, within these pages is the adventure John Dee and Edward Kelley should have had but never did.

This is a fun, occult/alchemy-based tale of Dr. John Dee, who arrives home to his burnt home to find a letter from his good friend Rabbi Judah ben Loew in Prague. It seems that there is a book that the rabbi wants Dee to guard with his life, for it contains the secret formula in cypher to bring about the mating of Lilith and Samael (Satan) and bring forth an eon of doom and destruction. But to his horror, Dee discovers that the book has been stolen and taken away from England. Back Dee, Kelley and their wives go to Prague to retrieve the book before the world becomes doomed.

Fun, fast-moving story; after all the stuff I've been reading lately this book was a breath of fresh air and a pleasant way to spend a couple of afternoons.

If you want a good old-fashioned adventure tale based on the occult, try it.

[John Graves · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just finished Tyson's Tortuous Serpent. I knew Tyson more for his Necronomicon and Lovecraft bio works, he also has a number of books out about occult subjects from spell casting to scrying. This being the first book that I have read outside that vein of work.
This was a killer adventure story based around John Dee in which he and a band of his people are looking for the "book of Lilith" before a cult unleashes her wrath upon the world. All was awesome until the Lovecraft tentacles came out from a hellish port. In other words The book should have been called a Lovecraftian Adventure not a Occult Adventure.
Other than that the book was well constructed and it did keep me reading till the end. I do like Tyson's work and am looking forward to read his new book which I know just came out. His details inside the story like took me into the time in which it was written, right down to the old queen english. This book is worth to checking out....

[Carmilla Voiez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Political intrigue, ritual magic, religious fanatics, Enochian angels and Lilith, could you ask for more? This book centres around two magicians - one god-fearing and the other devil worshipping. It is exactly as the tagline claims "an occult adventure". Although it's set in Elizabethan times it has a very modern feel that makes it easy to digest and places the action as something out of time. I loved this book and would recommend it highly.

[Γιώργος Μπελαούρης · Rating 2 out of 5]

δεύτερη απόπειρα με τάισον και μάλλον η τελευταία
ενώ έφευγε νεράκι, ενώ η έρευνα ήτανε στην πένα, ενώ οι χαρακτήρες μου ήτανε ήδη συμπαθείς από άλλα αναγνώσματά μου και επειδή τους μετέφερε επαρκώς
η φαντασία ήταν νωθρή και απογοητευτική και για άλλη μια φορά βρήκα το κείμενό του άψυχο και άνευρο

[Arax Miltiadous · Rating 4 out of 5]

σκοτεινό ναι μα πάραυτα αξιόλογο ταξίδι ξετυλίγετε μέσα από αυτές τις σελίδες...
τώρα αλήθεια η φαντασία?
μάλλον λίγο και από τα δυο.