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ISBN# 0765313332.
To be Published March 2005 as a hardback by Tor books.
Mr. West quizzes the author on theology, metaphysics, psychology and popular movies. Read the entire interview.
John DeNardo says: "Mr. Wright is the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy The Golden Age, (finalist of the 2003 Locus Award for first novel and finalist for the 2003 Campbell Memorial Award), begins the high fantasy sequence called The War of the Dreaming." Read the entire interview.
In which the author's embarrassing past as a Dungeons & Dragons player are revealed to a shocked and disbelieving world. Read another interview here.
Read yet another interview with the author by the author. I tried to ask myself hardball questions.
"John Wright is a stunning new talent. His vivid worlds are filled with wonder and dread, tension and hope."-David Brin
"I just about dropped the book to clap... This is a uniquely American fantasy." -Spiral Galaxy Book Reviews.
"Wright follows in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman and Tim Powers with his own distinctive style and ideas." (Quoted from Baker Books)
Wright envisions a nightmare for the human race that recalls H.P. Lovecraft at his most florid. In this sequel to The Last Guardian of Everness (2003), the battle against evil still rages, and things aren't looking too good for the guardians of the dream gate, which is supposed to hold back evil but is doing a pretty poor job of it. The job of watching the gate is currently entrusted to young Galen Waylock, who fell into a coma last time out and came to talking of the evil to come. Leading the evildoers is one Azrael de Grey, who conducts Satanic-summoning ceremonies in the bowels of the Pentagon. Galen's relative Peter, a grizzled Vietnam vet confined to a wheelchair, has been taken captive by the forces of evil, which have infiltrated the military and government. There's much hullabaloo on the other side of reality, too, with nightmarish dream worlds inhabited by monsters just waiting to unleash themselves on humanity. When they do, in a massive sea-battle featuring watery wraiths and monstrous krakens against the U.S. Navy, it's the apocalypse come to life.
Young Galen Waylock is the last watchman of the Dream Gate, beyond which the ancient evils wait, hungry for the human world. For a thousand years, Galen's family has stood guard, scorned by a world that dismissed the danger as myth. Even Galen's father deserted their post. Discarding his belief in the other world, he left Everness Mansion and the lonely coast of Maine to travel the world as a soldier.
But the warning bell has sounded in the dream world, unheeded. Now, the minions of Darkness have stirred in the deep and the long watch is over. An army of mythic monsters has invaded our world, and Galen and his friends have begun to fight them. To join the battle with universal darkness, even his father returns. The forces of light have gathered in Everness Mansion, which must stand, or all is lost.
John Wright has been called the most important talent of the new century, and received rave reviews for each volume of his debut SF trilogy, The Golden Age. Now, in Mists of Everness he continues the towering fantasy begun in The Last Guardian of Everness, a stirring epic that will inspire readers everywhere.
