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Informationen zum Autor Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lawrence Watt-Evans has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty years. The author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, and more than one hundred and fifty published articles, Watt-Evans writes primarily in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. His short fiction has won the Hugo Award as well as twice winning the Asimov's Readers Award. His fiction has been published in England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Poland, France, Hungary, and RussiaHe served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996 and after leaving that office was the recipient of HWA's first service award ever. He is also a member of Novelists Inc., and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Married with two children, he and his wife Julie live in Maryland. Klappentext "Lawrence Watt-Evans is an accomplished writer in a number of genres, but sword and sorcery is one of his strengths."-"-Hartford Courant" "Lawrence Watt-Evans delivers worlds brimming over with magic, mystery, and danger; fast-paced, action-packed, and thoroughly entertaining."--"Realms of Fantasy" Zusammenfassung Despite several years of study, Kilisha, an aspiring young apprenticewizard, has much to learn. After gathering ingredients for a lesson, she returnshome to find her master, Ithanalin the Wise, transformed into a statue. A taxcollector interrupted Ithanalin while working on a spell, a magic mirror tellsher, with the result that the wizard's soul has been distributed among thevarious household objects. "The dish had run away with the spoon" is literallythe case here, as all the furnishings have become animated and escaped out thedoor. In her efforts to track down the runaway objects and restore her petrifiedmaster to his former self, a quest that will eventually take her to the Overlordof Ethshar's fortress, Kilisha first tries to involve the Wizards' Guild, butultimately must rely on the few spells she knows and her master's spell book-aswell as her own imagination, initiative and ingenuity. ...
