Word: hollaston
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Sending is a suspense fantasy that makes charming, provocative and believable the adventures of Alfgif Hollaston, an ex-colonial officer turned landscape painter. Alfgif finds himself beset by a nameless fear. He traces the source to supernatural broadcasts from "the Purpose," which may be the devil, or simply a pantheistic deity. Alfgif gets a lot of help from a winsome polecat named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses...
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