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Merovingen Nights is a series of shared universe science fiction books set in writer C. J. Cherryh's Alliance–Union universe. There are eight books in the series: a novel by Cherryh, Angel with the Sword, and seven short fiction anthologies which Cherryh edited. The books were published by DAW Books between 1985 and 1991.
Mount Tabor is a significant locations in the Bible's Book of Judges, the source of the fraternity's ritual. [2] The fraternity's motto is In Solo Deo Salus or "In God Alone is Safety". [7] The fraternity's badge is a silver twelve-pointed star with the numbers 333 and 777, attached to a scarlet ribbon bearing the name, "International Order of ...
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
His first book, Knives in the Night, was published in 1987 by the Ivy Book imprint of Ballantine Books as the first novel in Sherman's series, The Night Fighter. The series consists of six books, also including Main Force Assault (1987), Out of the Fire (1987), A Rock and a Hard Place (1988), A Nghu Night Falls (1988), and Charlie Don't Live ...
This book continues with the recurring Jewish themes throughout Snicket's work. Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? is an allusion to the Jewish Passover Seder, in which a guest at the Seder, most normally the youngest, will ask the Ma Nishtana (also known as the Four Questions, which Snicket mirrors through the series' format, a collection of four different books each titled ...
The Adversary Cycle is a series of seven novels written by American author F. Paul Wilson. It was originally known as The Nightworld Cycle. John Clute, commenting on F. Paul Wilson's work in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, made several references to "the Adversary." Wilson, liking this, renamed the cycle. [citation needed]
The book also sees the return of Lord Michael Lamprey. A child witness in A Surfeit of Lampreys (American title Death of a Peer ), he was a civilian eager to join the police force in "I Can Find My Way Out", and he appears in Opening Night as a police constable attached to the CID.
Critical reception for Welcome to Night Vale has been positive and the novel was one of the Washington Post's top science-fiction and fantasy picks for October 2015. [2] [3] [4] Cory Doctorow praised the novel in his review at Boing Boing, stating "Shot through it all is the love and integrity that made Night Vale a success from the beginning ...