In the Empire of Shadow

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Orion, Feb 23, 2017 - Fiction - 320 pages

Pel Brown knew nothing about parallel universes, let alone travel between them. Then he stepped through a portal that appeared in his basement - and his life turned upside down.

That first inexplicable doorway took him into a magic world called Faerie, ruled by the evil and mysterious Shadow. Another portal provided escape to a world of science and spaceships - and ruthless space pirates plundering the Galactic Empire.

Imperial forces rescued Pel. They would even send him home - but only after he returned to Faerie and destroyed Shadow. And so, with wizards, spacemen, and swordsmen as his unlikely allies, Pel set out to beard the enemy in its stronghold.

But real life is what happens while you're making other plans - as Pel learned when he uncovered his malign foe's true nature...

About the author

Lawrence Watt-Evans (1954- )
Lawrence Watt-Evans is the working name of American science fiction and fantasy writer Lawrence Watt Evans. He was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, as the fourth of six children and studied at Bedford High School and Princeton University, although he left the latter without a degree. Watt-Evans began publishing sf in 1975 with "Paranoid Fantasy #1" for American Athiest. He has constructed several scripts for Marvel Comics and has been moderately prolific as a short story writer, with "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" (Asimov's, July 1987) won a 1988 Hugo.

Bibliographic information

• Title: In the Empire of Shadow; Three Worlds
• Author: Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Publisher: Orion, 2017
• ISBN: 1473214246, 9781473214248
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Fantasy / Historical; Fiction / Fantasy / Humorous