Re: Search for a book
From: John Crimmins <johncrim@v...>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:59:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Search for a book
At 11:28 PM 1/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hopefully someone on the list can jog my memory (using something less
>forceful than a Narn bat, thanks for the offer, Tom). I've read a
>book but can't remember the title or author. The premise is that some
>people can slip away from the "real world" into Faerie; as you go
>farther away from Earth, people become more nomadic, and therefore
>less inclined to high tech items (eg they can build sailing ships but
>don't stick around long enough to build silicon-chip plants). The
>hero, his secretary who he's been trying to rescue, and his friends
>are nearly sacrficed in a voodoo ritual.
>
>This ring a bell for anyone?
Yup. _Chase the Morning_, by Michael Scott Rohan. The sequel is _The
Gates of Noon_, and I can't recall the title of the third book in the
series.
Quite liked them myself; they'd make an excellent RPG background.
John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com