Pagan Passions
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The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth - with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus.
In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena - formerly known as the 42nd Street Library) and dedicated to the pleasures of the mind - Forrester falls under the soft, compelling pressure of soft, compelling devotees of Venus and Bacchus. He's going to be in need of all the strength that he and his Goddess, the beautiful and intellectual Athena, can muster!Into this sensuous strife stride the Temple Myrmidons - religious cops sworn to obey orders without question or hesitation - with a pickup order for William Forrester. Where he is taken, what happens to him, and the truly fantastic discoveries he makes about himself and the Gods and Goddesses ... here are the ingredients that make up this science fiction novel of suspense, intrigue, mystery and danger!Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781473201187
- Author: Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
- Pub date: 28.04.16
- RRP: $13.99
- Format: Electronic book text
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Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
Randall Garrett (1927-1987)
Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s under a wide variety of pseudonyms and house names. His first publication was a Probability Zero vignette for Astounding Science-Fiction in 1944. Garrett was at one time part of the Ziff-Davis stable writing for Amazing Stories and Fantastic, when he and his sometime collaborator Robert Silverberg ran a 'fiction factory' together. His third wife was Vicki Ann Heydron.Laurence M. Janifer (1933-2002)Laurence Mark Janifer was an American science fiction author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, later taking the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Over the course of his 50 year writing career, Janifer used a number of pseudonyms and began publishing work of genre interest with "Expatriate" for Cosmos in 1953. Many of his early sf works were written in collaboration with Randall Garrett, both writing under the joint pseudonym of Mark Phillips. For more information see http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/janifer_laurence_mOther books by the author
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