Carol Berg signs THE SPIRIT LENS

On Saturday, January 30, at 2:00 PM, readers are invited to join former mathematics major and computer software engineer Carol Berg at MG. The multiple award-winning mythic fantasy author describes her new novel, The Spirit Lens, as a “double-agent murder mystery set in a renaissance-style world where science is marginalizing magic.” Failed magician and scholar Portier de Savin-Duplais tends the library of his kingdom’s last Collegia Magica, until the king request he look into a murder with disturbing magical overtones, in this first in a new trilogy. Whether you’re familiar with Carol’s other books, like The Lighthouse Duet Flesh and Spirit / Blood and Bone, or a fantasy reader looking for a new author, we hope you’ll join us.

The Spirit Lens: A Novel of the Collegia Magica (Paperback)

By Carol Berg

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780451463111
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Roc Trade, 1/2010

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A brand new fantasy trilogy from an author who "brilliantly brings out her characters" ("Denver Post").
For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. But when the King of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled...

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