In The Wounded Land, Covenant sees a blazing torch held aloft and approaching in a downpour. In his experience of the Land, Earthpower would be required to perform such a feat, so his reaction to the burning, smoking wood is appropriate. If Earthpower were being used, the wood would not smoke. There...

Howdy! First post. I picked up a book by one of my favorite illustration-artists, Wayne Douglas Barlowe, called Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy . It is a follow-up to his Hugo-nominated Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials of the late seventies, which illustrated beings from many science-fiction classics...