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The Panorama Egg
| Author: | A. E. Silas |
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DAW Books, 1978 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Hal Archer is not a happy man. His job as an attorney brings in a good income, but no satisfaction; while only in his early 30s, he is out of shape and physically spent; and his wife is leaving for the Bahamas with a gigolo named Paul. The one solace for Archer is his hobby of collecting panorama eggs; these are eggs in which the contents have been removed and a landscape carefully painted on the interior lining of the shell. One can view the landscape via a small aperture made in one end of the egg.
The panorama egg Archer most desires is a magical egg in which the interior vista is not that of a static painting, but an actual image of a living world, perhaps a world located in another dimension.
One evening, at a visit to the home of his friend Henry Patterson, Archer meets an enigmatic little woman named Mera Melaklos. After hearing of Archer's interest in panorama eggs, Melaklos comes forth to offer him the unique egg he seeks. Peering into the aperture of this egg, Archer can espy a landscape with trees blowing in the breeze, the shadows of clouds moving across a meadow, small mammals running across a field. When Melaklos offers to transport him to the world inside the panorama egg, Archer readily complies. Instantly, he arrives in the world known as Dolesar.
Accompanied by Melaklos, Archer embarks on a series of adventures in this strange realm. It seems that the actions of a Dark Lord threatens the security of this land; there are rumors of alien 'tiger men' loosed to wreak mayhem on the peaceful peoples of Dolesar. As the political intrigues set in place by Mera Melaklos come to fruition, Archer realizes that, far from being a tourist in this world, he may well be the one man capable of turning aside the plans of the Dark Lord. But there's a real problem at hand: magic will be needed to defeat the enemy, and Hal Archer is no magician.......
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