The Carnival of Destruction [Paperback]

Brian Stableford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 24, 1996

God is dead, and seven remaining fallen angels carry on their eternal battle through human agents. Now, while the Great War rages in Europe, David Lydyard embarks on his final supernatural quest. With a French soldier miraculously rescued from death for an ally against his old enemies, Lynyard penetrates the nature of angels and their interference in human affairs.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

God is dead and the universe is breaking down in this climactic entry in Stableford's dark fantasy trilogy, which began with The Werewolves of London and continued with The Angel of Pain. Still alive are seven fallen angels who are fearful about what to do with the rest of their existences. To determine their futures, they pit their energies against each other in the likenesses of men at war. The story, which is as much a demonology as a novel, begins with Anatole, a French atheist wounded in France during WWI who finds himself tortured by agents of Satan, saved by Jeanne d'Arc and given a message he must carry to arthritic David Lydyard, retired English metascientist-and protagonist of the two prequels-who now thinks he's Satan. Stableford attempts a kind of Gray's Anatomy of the sensibilities of God-less angels as they try to grasp their own beginnings and shape their futures. With its cast of angels and world-wandering werewolves and a plot that considers space and matter, the death of Earth and a last chance for humanity, this richly inventive, sometimes achingly dense novel assures Stableford's place in the front lines of speculative fiction.
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From Library Journal

As World War I ravages Europe, a young French soldier returns from the brink of death as the instrument of an otherworldly force that leads him to England. There he confronts a small group of people privy to the secret history of the world. The conclusion of this trilogy, which includes The Werewolves of London (LJ 11/15/92) and The Angel of Pain (Carroll & Graf, 1993), becomes a voyage through time and space as well as a journey into the consciousness of the universe. Fans of speculative fiction will enjoy this ambitious and imaginative novel.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 436 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (March 24, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786703334
• ISBN-13: 978-0786703333
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,620,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)