Doctor Mirabilis
by James Blish
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Xlib/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 039606325X
- ISBN 13
- 9780396063254
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Minimal library distinctions, pocket removed, appears as lightly read, unblemished copy in DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.
With Preface to the American Edition, Table of Contents, Dramatis Personae, Notes. "This novel is volume I of a trilogy with the overall title 'After Such Knowledge'. A historical novel based on the life of Friar Roger Bacon, one of the great scholars of the Middle Ages. remarkable life of Friar Roger Bacon in the 14th century.
Blish created a trilogy, each volume of which dealt with an aspect of the price of knowledge, & gave it the overall name of After Such Knowledge (from a T.S. Eliot quote). The 1st published, A Case of Conscience (winner of the '59 Hugo Award as well as 2004/1953 Retrospective Hugo for Best Novella), showed a Jesuit priest confronted with an intelligent alien species, apparently unfallen, which he eventually concludes must be a Satanic fabrication. The 2nd, Doctor Mirabilis, is a historical novel about the medieval proto-scientist Roger Bacon. The 3rd, actually two short novels, Black Easter & The Day After Judgment, was written using the assumption that the ritual magic for summoning demons as described in grimoires actually worked. In that book, a powerful industrialist & arms merchant arranges to call up demons in the midst of a modern world crisis, resulting in nuclear war & the destruction of civilization. Black Easter is devoted to that element of the plot; The Day After Judgment is devoted to exploring the consequences of the destruction of the world, with an extraordinary ending in both narrative & theological terms.
Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise. Updated 3.12.2023 . Biblio 9.21.2020 #2021-20119
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #2021-20119
- Title
- Doctor Mirabilis
- Author
- James Blish
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Xlib
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unstated, Presumed 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039606325X
- ISBN 13
- 9780396063254
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 335
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction
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