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On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983.It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The book focuses on Zane, a photographer about to commit suicide who instead kills Death and must assume his office.
Norton goes back in time to check out this young man, but after consulting with the other Incarnations, he is informed that this man is the current office holder of the Incarnation of Death (Thanatos—in other words, Zane, from the previous novel) and that it is Zane's attempted suicide that brought him to that position.
Incarnations of Immortality is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony.The books each focus on one of eight supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ours, with the exception that society has advanced both magic and modern technology.
Chronos Publishing AG is a book publishing company based in Zürich, Switzerland. [ 1 ] The company specialises in social history with notable publications such as studies of the Bergier commission in 2001 [ 2 ] and the Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2013.
The David Clinton incarnation of Chronos appears in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU) series Justice League Unlimited two-part episode "The Once and Future Thing", voiced by Peter MacNicol. [12] This version is a meek physics professor from the future era depicted in Batman Beyond who despite being ostracized by his peers for his theories on time ...
Kronos (UK: / ˈ k r oʊ n ɒ s /, US: / ˈ k r oʊ n oʊ s /) (also spelled as Chronos [1]) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Jim Starlin, the character first appeared in Iron Man #55 (February 1972). [2] Kronos is a cosmic being who is the embodiment of time. [3] [4] He is the brother of ...
Although the same format was used, the title changed frequently, and the program was variously known as The Book Bird, Storybound, and Readit. Later productions used variations of the original title: Books from Cover to Cover, More Books from Cover to Cover, and Read on: Cover to Cover. The last series was produced in 1996.
A year after the events of On a Pale Horse, the now middle-aged Niobe is again asked to join the Incarnation of Fate, this time as Lachesis. Satan has arranged that all three offices become vacant at the same time, making the Incarnation of Fate inexperienced in all three aspects simultaneously.