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IT 1S not generally known but there are dark, dusty corners
in every reviewer's writing room wherein lurk Books of
Magical Properties.

. t stumbled upon one such nook pp.; $4.95), a weird and wonderful
' recently and, after much cursing, fable from a very weird and
sneezing and shin-rubbing, yanked = wonderful mind.
a startled tome from the detritus in The third (as you might have
which it had lain buried for untold — guessed) book with a Discworld
eons — or at Jeast several weeks. setting, Sourcery weaves a magical

Only after a violent struggle of spell of silliness, implied sexiness
wills and the muttering of arcane (translation: no explicit naughty
incantations (which reviewers are bits), wizards, a sourcerer, a
duty-bound to conceal from the fighting female, a would-be
unitiated on pain of removal of fighting male and the possible
postal services) was | able to un- destruction of Discworld itself.
ravel its secrets. This tale of a dis- Here are the principal characters:
tant time and place, secured at Rincewind — a wizard without
great risk to my lower extremities
and nasal passages, is now reveal-
ed for the first time anywhere in
this column.

“There was a man and he had
eight sons. Apart from that he was
nothing more than a comma on
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people. ,
“But the eighth son grew up
and had eight sons, and because
there is only one suitable profes-

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sion for the eighth son of an eighth
son, he became a wizard. And he
became wise and powerful, or at
any rate powerful, and wore a
pointed hat and there it would
haveended... =~ :

“Should have ended...

“But against the Lore of Magic
and certainly against all reason —
except the reasons of the heart,
which are warm and messy and,
well, unreasonable — he fled the
halls of magic and fell in love and
got married, not necessarily in that
order.

“And he had seven sans, each
one from the cradle at least as
powerful as any wizard in the
world.

“And then he had an eighth
son... A wizard squared. A source
of magic. A sourcerer.”’

Thus begins one of the most
warped sagas in this or any other
dimension, the latest Discworld
novel (actually a novel novel or at
least it would have been had
author Terry Pratchett not penned
two others).

Blending science fiction and fan-
tasy with little care for fractured
boundaries is Sourcery (Corgi; 270°

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papers or at least none who weuld
care to admit it...

The Luggage — a malevolent .
box created from a rare and
magical bush as a sidelash of the
ancient Wizard Wars. Loyal,
badtempered and unfortunately
mobile, the Luggage has a nasty
habit of eating anyone who
disagrees with it.

Conina — as fierce warrior,
possibly without equal in the mar- .
tial arts that make mercenaries so
noticeable at cocktail parties, Con-
ina is not only devastatingly lethal
but also ravishingly beautiful. She
is also the daughter of the legend-
ary Cohen the Barbarian — or at
any rate legendary of Discworld...

Coin — the eighth son of an

. eighth son of an eighth son; in

short, a sourcerer (in fact the only
sourcerer on Discworld at the
time). Coin’s father, Ipslore,
cheated Death by melding his life
essence and powers into a staff
carried by Coin.

Sourcery will appeal to all Doug
Adams and Monty Python affi-
cionados who are still at large and
able to function sufficiently in this
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