Title: The Gate of Ivory
Title Record # 2803
Author: Doris Egan
Date: 1989-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Gate of Ivory
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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Author: Doris Egan
Date: 1989-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Gate of Ivory
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Synopsis: The science of magic - is what lures people from all over the galaxy to the world of Ivory. Ivory, exotic and dangerous, where everything is for sale, and law exists only to protect the most powerful families. And to anthropology student Theodora of Pyrene, Ivory - the one place in the known universe where magic works and where whose who command it can control society - is an irresistible world to explore on her all-too-brief vacation. But cut off from her companions and her ship, attacked and robbed, Theodora's short pleasure trip soon becomes a terrifying odyssey. For on Ivory all her studies and training are useless, and Theodora is forced to turn to fortune telling to survive. To her amazement, she discovers that she actually is gifted with magical skill, a skill that will plunge her into deadly peril, when she becomes involved with Ran Cormallon, one of the most powerful sorcerers on Ivory - and a man whose unknown enemies will stop at nothing, including spell-murdering Theodora, in the campaign to destroy Ran and seize his power! (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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7 | 1990 Locus | Best First Novel |
Nomination | 1990 Crook | Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Gate of Ivory | 1989-02-00 | Doris Egan | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #771) | 0-88677-328-8 / UE2328 | $3.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
319 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Richard Hescox | |
The Gate of Ivory | 1990-11-00 | Doris Egan | Mandarin | 0-7493-0375-1 | £3.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
319 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Brian Salmon | |
The Gate of Ivory | 1992-01-00 | Doris Egan | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #771) | 0-88677-328-8 | $4.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
319 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Richard Hescox | |
The Complete Ivory | 2001-09-00 | Doris Egan | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1197) | 0-7564-0041-4 | $7.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
896 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
omni | Richard Hescox |
Reviews
- Review by Carolyn Cushman (1989) in Locus, #337 February 1989
- Review by Baird Searles (1989) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989
- Review by Doug Fratz (1989) in Thrust, #33, Spring 1989
- Review by Wendy Bradley (1991) in Interzone, #45 March 1991
- Review by Sue Thomason (1991) in Paperback Inferno, #89