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The Alchemist's Door
The Alchemist's Door
Author: Lisa Goldstein
Scientist, mathematician, and court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee is also one of the sixteenth-century's most renowned alchemists, driven by a passion to fathom the elemental secrets of the cosmos. But when his reckless assistant, Edward Kelley, succeeds in using a crystal sphere to summon angels, Dee is catapulted into an awesome st...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780765301505
ISBN-10: 0765301504
Publication Date: 8/3/2002
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A fine historical fantasy novel, somewhat loosely plotted, but since the principal protagonists Dr. John Dee and Rabbi Loew's lives are principally those of scholars the adventure elements sometimes seem a bit forced - not really alternative history in terms of differences from published outcomes but sort of wainscoting fantasy - things that didn't get published - I liked it well enough, although none of her subsequent books have seemed to have the punch of her 1st 2 novels - The Red Magician and The Dream Years, but that may just be my changing perspective with age.


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