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FROM: Ned Heeger-Brehm <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 10:58 AM

Does this sound familiar to anyone? A book published
probably 10-20 years ago, thought to be titled
"Sorceress' Son" (but can't find that title anywhere),
involving a sorceress' son (surprise surprise) who
fights demons by breaking open magical rings. The
book also involves a spider, though I don't believe
the spider talks.

Thanks for your help!

Ned Heeger-Brehm
[removed]@yahoo.com

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FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 11:19 AM

Could this possibly be Sorcerer's Son by Phyllis Eisenstein.

Fron the Phyllis Eisenstein web site (http://www.bl.com/eisenstein/#SS):

When Cray Ormoru decides to become a knight like his father instead of a
sorcerer like his
mother, he sets out to claim his paternal heritage, not realizing that his
parentage is much more
complicated than he thinks. The universe he lives in is full of magical
spiders, walking plants, and
demon slaves who come from dimensions made of Fire, Air, Water, and Ice,
and Cray encounters
all of these and more in his quest to reunite his family and find his true
place in the scheme of things.

Barry

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Ned Heeger-Brehm wrote:

> Does this sound familiar to anyone? A book published
> probably 10-20 years ago, thought to be titled
> "Sorceress' Son" (but can't find that title anywhere),
> involving a sorceress' son (surprise surprise) who
> fights demons by breaking open magical rings. The
> book also involves a spider, though I don't believe
> the spider talks.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Ned Heeger-Brehm
> [removed]@yahoo.com
>
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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 11:19 AM

Possibly Phyllis Eisenstein's first novel by that name, published by Arkham House.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
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>>> [removed]@yahoo.com 03/08/01 10:26AM >>>
Does this sound familiar to anyone? A book published
probably 10-20 years ago, thought to be titled
"Sorceress' Son" (but can't find that title anywhere),
involving a sorceress' son (surprise surprise) who
fights demons by breaking open magical rings. The
book also involves a spider, though I don't believe
the spider talks.

Thanks for your help!

Ned Heeger-Brehm
[removed]@yahoo.com

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Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 11:40 AM

At 11:01 AM 3/8/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Possibly Phyllis Eisenstein's first novel by that name, published by
Arkham House.
>
>
>Marsha Valance


Phyllis's first book was for Arkham House, but it was BORN TO EXILE (1978),
a short story collection about a minstrel who can (but prefers not to)
teleport. SORCEROR'S SON was her first-published real novel (1979), but
it was a Del Rey paperback. (And it probably is the book the client
was looking for.)

If client is especially fond of giant talking spider sidekick stories,
Robert Vardeman has a series involving such; titles don't come to
mind but I could find them. . . . (Bob is a very nice guy but a
self-described hack writer whose stuff I rarely read.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Melanie C. Duncan" <[removed]@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 1:05 PM

SORCEROR'S SON was her first-published real novel (1979), but
>it was a Del Rey paperback. (And it probably is the book the client
>was looking for.)

I have this book at home. It's definitely the title the patron is looking for.


Sincerely,
Melanie C. Duncan, M.S.L.S.
Washington Memorial Library, Reference Librarian
Library Journal, Christian Fiction Columnist
The Bookdragon Review, Editor/Publisher
http://www.bookdragonreview.com
All opinions expressed are my own.

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