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A Comprehensive View of Andre Norton's Witch World
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Futures Yet Unseen

 A Novella by Melinda M Snodgrass

 

Edition Used for Analysis:
[Tales of the Witch World 2] (1989) Published by TOR, PB, 0-812-54757-8, 978-0-812-54757-3, $3.95, 343pg ~ cover by Victoria Poyser

Synopsis:

It seems that only Sytry knew his destiny and he keeps insisting on being allowed to live it. Sytry is a tinkerer and his family thinks he only plays with stinks and noises. His wife of the Old Race teaches him the power in secret. In a world where magic is the only power and machines are shunned the people believe their only recourse against Dukkar is to run and hide. Only Sytry is willing to stand and fight at the cost of all the Futures Yet Unseen, and prove that you need both magic and machines to fight the war.

Timeline Points:

  1. p271-272. Set in Escore, when the Old Race fled to Estcarp and turned the mountains. The first Turning.

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Intersting Companion Articles
 

[Glossary of Witch World] [Races of the Witch World] ~ by the Grand Wizard Michael Martinez

[Bibliography 1980] [Humanity 1982] [Survey 1983] [Andre becomes her Fiction 1994] ~ by the Grand Wizard Roger Schlobin

[Introduction to Witch World 1977] ~ by the Grande Dame Sandra Miesel

[Norton Profile 1966] ~ by the Grande Dame Lin Carter    [Witch World Calander 1980] ~ by the Wizard C.M. Quillan

Back to Contents     [Expanded Reading Order of The Witch Word Saga~ by the Master Sorcerer Metaldragon

 


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