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AATE plot synopsis
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:19 pm
by Jussi
The UK publisher Gollancz has revealed a plot synopsis of AATE:
Desperate for help to find her adopted son, Jeremiah, Linden Avery has resurrected Thomas Covenant in a cataclysmic exertion of Earthpower and wild magic. But the consequences of her efforts are more terrible than she could have imagined. Sorcery on that scale has awakened the Worm of the World's End: the ultimate end of all Time, and therefore of all life, has been set in motion.
And on a more personal level, the results are no less extreme. The stress of reincarnation so many centuries after his death has fractured Covenant's mind. He cannot tell Linden where to find her son. And his leprosy has renewed its grip on him, inexorably killing his nerves. The Ranyhyn had tried to warn her. Now, plunged to depths of desperation and despair for which she is entirely unprepared, Linden seeks radical responses to the dilemmas she has created.
Searching for Jeremiah, and accompanied only by a few friends and allies – some of them unwilling – she takes chances that threaten her sanity, forcing her to confront the Land's most fearsome secrets. Dreadful futures hinge on all of her choices, and she and her companions are driven beyond the limits of their endurance. Yet she still walks paths laid out for her by the Despiser, and his forces are ready...
re: AATE plot synopsis
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:15 pm
by thranathiril
Well this at least answers one of the nagging questions that sprung to mind from chapter 1 of AATE, namely -
Why does TC have leprosy again, after it was burned out of him in the ?Banefire in WGW.
LA's resurrection has really done a number on him, if he is back, with leprosy rampant
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:02 pm
by dlbpharmd
Looks like we're about to read another fuckin' book about Linden, and that pisses me off.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:33 pm
by Orlion
dlbpharmd wrote:Looks like we're about to read another fuckin' book about Linden, and that pisses me off.
Of course, though I don't think it'll be another One Tree situation.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:48 pm
by rdhopeca
Would it be fair to question the synopsis accuracy? I hesitate to make any assumptions based on a publisher's synopsis.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:54 pm
by thranathiril
rdhopeca wrote:Would it be fair to question the synopsis accuracy? I hesitate to make any assumptions based on a publisher's synopsis.
I take it with a healthy pinch of salt, but it certainly sounds like a publisher's blurb, in its sweeping generalities - if you ignore the references to specific characters other than Linden, this could almost be the blurb for Fatal Revenant.
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:22 am
by Seareach
If I remember correctly SRD writes these.
And dlb...breathe, honey!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:29 pm
by kevinswatch
dlbpharmd wrote:Looks like we're about to read another fuckin' book about Linden, and that pisses me off.
And after such a tease in that first chapter... The TC POV in Chapter 1 of Shall Pass Utterly will go down as the best chapter of the Last Chronicles. I'm calling it now.
-jay
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:35 pm
by drew
I'd say that this synopsis didn't really give away any information that we didn't already know by reading the first chapter.
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:17 pm
by spoonchicken
drew wrote:I'd say that this synopsis didn't really give away any information that we didn't already know by reading the first chapter.
................agreed...there's nothing new here at all.
Plot synopsis
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:28 pm
by SkurjMaster
I respectfully disagree with some of the posts here concerning the AATE plot synopsis. I haven't had my full dose of coffee yet this morning, but I think we might be able to see things hinted at that we might not have anticipated:
1) Accompanied by 'few friends, some of them unwilling'. I can't imagine that TC wouldn't go with her, but is that possible? Or does this refer to the Haruchai?
2) Radical responses? What in hell could those be? Reset the time-line? Partner with Lord Foul? Give in to the Harrow?
3) Dilemmas? How many?
4) Most fearsome secrets? Did we not always think, or were lead to believe/assume, that TC's and LA's personal demons were being dealt with against the backdrop of the Land that itself had a certain structure and obeyed certain rules? Are we about to find out that things were not as they appeared? What don't we know that is about to be revealed?
Hmmmm......
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:36 pm
by ninjaboy
Well assuming Linden'll be in command, the Masters will be unwilling.
Did anyone else find themselves reminded of Longwrath when HLK (i think) said 'Slay her'...
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:44 am
by Jussi
New blurb from the Putnam fall catalog:
The long-awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth and Fatal Revenant returns readers to the Land—and unravels some of the mysteries haunting Covenant and Linden Avery.
Thomas Covenant is alive again, restored to his mortal body by the unimaginable combined force of his own white gold ring, Linden Avery’s Staff of Law, and the ancient dagger called High Loric’s krill. His resurrection is Linden’s defiant act of love, despite warnings from mortals and immortals that unleashing this much power would destroy the world. She brought his spirit back from its prison in the Arch of Time, and revived his slain body, so that Covenant lies whole on the cool grass, and the world seems at peace.
But the truth is inescapable: The thunderclap of power has awakened the Worm of the World’s End, and all of them, and the Land itself, are forfeit to its devouring. If they have any chance to save the Land, it will come from unlikely sources—including the mysterious boy Jeremiah, Linden’s adopted son, whose secrets are only beginning to come to light.
In PDF format:
booksellers.penguin.com/static/pdf/putnam-fall10.pdf
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:52 pm
by Usivius
Woo hoo! new book coming soon!
and (with apologies to dlb)) with TC and LINDEN!!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:17 am
by DrPaul
I think some important clues about what to expect in AATE and The Last Dark can be found by re-reading:
* Pitchwife's conversation with Linden about the Worm of the World's End and its cosmological significance in the chapter "A Calling of Nicor" from TOT (which was subsequently confirmed by Daphin in Elemenesdene);
* Lord Foul's gleeful predictions of the end of the world in the chapter "The Despiser's Guidance" in ROTE, and his statement that "There is more, but of my deeper purpose I say nothing."
I think the arousal of the Worm will be irreversible, the Earth will be destroyed, and the ultimate denouement of The Last Chronicles will involve the foiling (or perhaps not foiling) of Lord Foul's "deeper purpose".
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:48 am
by Usivius
dlbpharmd wrote:Looks like we're about to read another fuckin' book about Linden, and that pisses me off.
shouldn't be surprised about this... SRD has already spoken often about the POV and she AND TC are crucial to the story. They are equal. In love.
I find it funny, that after all this time, people can't get over this 'Linden thing' and just enjoy a damn-fine story with damn-interesting characters...
ah well....
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:12 am
by MrKABC
Usivius wrote:dlbpharmd wrote:Looks like we're about to read another fuckin' book about Linden, and that pisses me off.
shouldn't be surprised about this... SRD has already spoken often about the POV and she AND TC are crucial to the story. They are equal. In love.
I find it funny, that after all this time, people can't get over this 'Linden thing' and just enjoy a damn-fine story with damn-interesting characters...
ah well....
I bought a book called "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" not "The Whines of Linden Avery". (and I am not a THOOLAH member!)
Just my $0.02...
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:54 pm
by Borillar
In response to this:
Why does TC have leprosy again, after it was burned out of him in the ?Banefire in WGW.
I would say:
IIRC, the leprosy wasn't burned out of him. I think Linden says at first when she sees him emerge from the Banefire that he no longer has leprosy, but then realizes it's just quiescent.
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:14 pm
by Orlion
Borillar wrote:In response to this:
Why does TC have leprosy again, after it was burned out of him in the ?Banefire in WGW.
I would say:
IIRC, the leprosy wasn't burned out of him. I think Linden says at first when she sees him emerge from the Banefire that he no longer has leprosy, but then realizes it's just quiescent.
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I believe you speak sooth, Borillar.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:55 pm
by Aleksandr
Accompanied by 'few friends, some of them unwilling'. I can't imagine that TC wouldn't go with her, but is that possible? Or does this refer to the Haruchai?
Maybe Infelice or Esmer would qualify too, if they go with her. And might the Ranyhyn be less eager to follow Linden now?
Another possibility is that the book splits in two with TC accompanied by some companions going off to achieve one quest/goal, while Linden goes off another direction. Rather like the Ill-Earth War after TC and Elena, led by Amok, leave Mhoram and Hile Troy. This would give us chapters with both POVs.