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FICTION: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz∙The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer∙The Second Coming, Walker Percy
...Soldier's Embrace, Nadine Gordimer ¶Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ¶Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ¶ Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote ¶ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ¶ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer ¶ The Second Coming, Walker Percy
FICTION: Consenting Adults or the Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip José Farmer ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
...characters that includes Viking Warrior Erik Bloodaxe, Cowboy Star Tom Mix and a deck of World War I Flying Aces, its plot twisted to provide a climactic battle between Clemens and King John, and a final confrontation between Burton and the strange Ethicals who control the Riverworld, The Magic Labyrinth charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings. It also raises a few moral questions. Is Göring a villain or a political puritan who, "once having given his loyalty ... did not withdraw it"? As for the agnostic Clemens, Farmer writes: "Sometimes...
This is not to say that The Magic Labyrinth is quite the classic it might have been. Like many another puzzlemaker, Philip José Farmer has trouble with his ultimate revelation. The idea of a highly advanced society using its unearthly powers to redirect humanity is neither especially new (2001 hints at a similar solution) nor appropriate. Ten-year followers of the Riverworld are likely to feel that they have crossed deserts, scaled mountains and battled hostile tribesmen for a potty message: Farmer's El Dorado looks suspiciously like Hoboken...