Deryni Checkmate

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Author(s):

Katherine Kurtz

First Pub:

1972

Genre(s):

Fantasy

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

See 18

I - Three things there are which defy prediction: a woman's whims, the touch of the Devil's finger, and the weather of Gwynedd in March. -St. Veneric, Triads

II - I am the son of the wise, the son of the ancient kings. -Isaiah 19:11

III - I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me. -Terence

IV - And the Angel that spoke in me, said to me... -Zechariah 1:9

V - Who is she that looketh forth in the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? -Song of Solomon 6:10

VI - They also that seek after my life lay snares for me. -Psalms 38:12

VII - Let destruction come upon him unawares... -Psalms 35:8

VIII - For there cometh a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. -Isaiah 14:31

IX - And he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them. -Isaiah 19:20

X - Seek the aid of darker counsel...

XI - I have raised up one from the north, and he is come... and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. -Isaiah 41:25

XII - When fear cometh as a storm.... -Proverbs 1:27

XIII - Going down to the chambers of death.... -Proverbs 7:27

XIV - What is the supreme wisdom of man? Not to injure another when he has the power. -St. Teilo

XV - The humans kill what they do not understand. -Unknown Deryni Monk

XVI - For love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. -Song of Solomon 8:6

XVII - There must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be manifest among you. -I Corinthians 11:19

XVIII - Stand now with thine enchantments, with the multitudes of thy sorceries, wherein thou bast labored from thy youth. -Isaiah 47:12

Internal ID:

2410

Series:

Deryni Rising
High Deryni

Deryni*

#2 of 16

Deryni*

An encompasing series of several trilogies about the Deryni by Katherine Kurtz.

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1) Deryni Rising
2) Deryni Checkmate
3) High Deryni
4) Camber of Culdi
5) Saint Camber
6) Camber the Heretic
7) The Bishop's Heir
8) The King's Justice
9) The Quest for Saint Camber
10) The Harrowing of Gwynedd
11) King Javan's Year
12) The Bastard Prince
13) King Kelson's Bride
14) In the King's Service
15) Childe Morgan
16) The King's Deryni

Chronicles of the Deryni

#2 of 3

Chronicles of the Deryni

A series within the Deryni world.

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1) Deryni Rising
2) Deryni Checkmate
3) High Deryni

Copyright:

Dedication:

For
JOHN G. NELSON
who, like the Deryni,
strives to hold back the darkness -
of whatever kind.

First Sentence:

March has long been a month of storms in the Eleven Kingdoms.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"Our Deryni king has need of us."

Comments:

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Added: 06-Aug-2019

Last Updated: 29-May-2024

01-Nov-1978

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Nov-1978

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.95

Pages*:

302

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2127

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-27102-5

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-27102-0

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Alan Mardon - Cover Artist

"IT'S CLEAR THAT KATHERINE KURTZ IS A
GREAT NEW TALENT IN THE FIELD OF FANTASY.
THE BOOKS HAVE THE PROMISE OF
TOLKIEN OR EDDISON..."
- Bestsellers

The number of the Deryni was small, very small - for they had been hounded for generations, their very identity kept secret for so long that many who were of Deryni blood did not know it. Those who did, those few who had managed to retain their arcane powers, concealed their background - for bitter persecution once again swept the land of Gwynedd, inspired by a raving fanatic sworn to destroy all Deryni in a final bloodbath.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Edition: May 1972
Sixth Printing: November 1978

Other book covers for this series run

Deryni Checkmate

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Mass Market Paperback

Author(s)

Katherine Kurtz
Birth: 18 Oct 1944 Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Notes:

From About the Author in Bishop's Heir:

Katherine Kurtz was awarded a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Miami and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it. She earned an M.A. in medieval English history from UCLA while writing her first two novels, and worked as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy for the next ten years. She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, an avid horsewoman, and an avowed cat person. She has a husband who wears kilts, a ten-year-old son named Cameron, a vintage Bentley motorcar once owned by HRH the Duke of Kent, and hopes soon to live in a castle in Ireland. Besides the Deryni Trilogy, the Camber Trilogy, and several short stories set in the Deryni universe, she has recently published a World War II thriller, Lammas Night, dealing with magic worked to keep Hitler from invading England in the summer of 1940. She is currently at work on the second and third books of the Histories of King Kelson, with at least two more trilogies planned.

Awards

1973

Mythopoeic Society

Mythopoeic Award

Nominee

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