{"id":4677,"date":"2014-03-24T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2014-04-10T21:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:53:02","slug":"world-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/world-without-end\/","title":{"rendered":"World Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Do you know what concerns me most about these gentlemen? Oh, not what you might think. I do not believe them bad. They are not even particularly greedy or selfish, for men in their station. No, what concerns me is the narrowness of their vision. It is a problem with men driven by the need to accomplish. They focus on the task at hand to the exclusion of all else &#8212; even to the next bend. <strong>Never<\/strong> do they turn their gaze back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mages have all died out and their knowledge died with them &#8212; Tristam&#8217;s uncle Erasmus worked for one of the last of them. Tristam is a naturalist, an empiricist, with no knowledge of magic whatsoever. Yet as he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime he has a growing suspicion that magic is following him.<\/p>\n<p>The king is already beyond elderly, but a plant called kingfoil is keeping him alive. The problem is the palace is running out of its supply &#8212; the seeds aren&#8217;t growing new plants like they used to. An expedition is mounted to procure some more kingfoil. Tristam finds himself on the voyage, as is the beguiling Duchess of Morland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Without End<\/strong> by Sean Russell was published in 1995. It&#8217;s the first part of the duology <strong>Moontide and Magic Rise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the book takes place at sea. If you some knowledge of sailing terminology, you might enjoy this part a bit more than I did.<\/p>\n<p>Tristam gradually finds out that different people want different things of him, and he gradually finds out that magic has not been left in the past. It&#8217;s a great book, and I&#8217;m eager to find out what happens in the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>The book doesn&#8217;t come to a conclusion &#8212; you&#8217;ll have to read the sequel for that.<\/p>\n<p>I read Russell&#8217;s books <strong>Initiate Brother<\/strong> and <strong>Gatherer of Clouds<\/strong> a few years ago and loved them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Do you know what concerns me most about these gentlemen? Oh, not what you might think. I do not believe them bad. They are not even particularly greedy or selfish, for men in their station. No, what concerns me is the narrowness of their vision. It is a problem with men driven by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}