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The Fellowship of the Talisman

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1978
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32 chapters
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13486
No series
Copyright © 1978 by Clifford D. Simak
No dedication.
The manor house was the first undamaged structure they had seen in two days of travel through an area that had been desolated with a thoroughness at once terrifying and unbelievable.
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"And now," she said, "I'm ready for tomorrow."
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Added: 11-Jan-2023
Last Updated: 27-Nov-2023

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 01-Aug-1979
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Aug-1979
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.25
Pages*:
314
Internal ID:
12995
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-27592-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-27592-9
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Michael Whelan  - Cover Artist
THROUGH LANDS
FORLORN


This was medieval England in the 1970s, again beset by the ancient Evil that had kept the Dark Ages from ever lightening.  Half the country was in the grip of the fell Harriers, and it was through these Harried Lands that Duncan of Standish would have to make his way to Oxenford.  His mission was to authenticate a long-lost testament which offered the only hope against the terror.

Beset by Harriers, Duncan is saved by Diane, great-granddaughter of a renegade wizard, and joined by the strangest company ever assembled: a timid hermit, a ghost who knows nothing of ghosthood, a banshee, a grumpy goblin, a witch who could never quite make herself evil enough, and a demon who is AWOL from Hell.

Duncan believes himself protected by the talisman of a wizard's bauble.  But when the Evil forces detect the company and mount a final assault against them, Duncan sees his only hope crumble in failure.

He is left with only his courage and his mission...

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
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First Edition: September 1978
Paperback format First Edition: August 1979

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Author(s)

Clifford D Simak  
Birth: 03 Aug 1904 Millville, Wisconsin, USA
Death: 24 Apr 1988 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Notes:
From "About the Author" in The Fellowship of the Talisman

Clifford D. Simak is a newspaperman, only recently retired.  Over the years he has written more than 25 books and has some 200 short stories to his credit.  In 1977 he received the Nebula Grand Master award of the Science Fiction Writers of America and has won several other awards for his writing.  He was born and raised in southwestern Wisconsin, a land of wooded hills and deep ravines, and often uses this locale for his stories.  A number of critics have cited him as the pastoralist of science fiction.

Perhaps the best known of his work is City, which has become a science-fiction classic.

He and his wife Kay have been happily married for almost 50 years. They have two children - a daughter, Shelley Ellen, a magazine editor, and Richard Scott, a chemical engineer.

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