In Shadows in the Stone, Jack Dann creates a fully-realized, living,
breathing universe, a universe where the Vatican is in Venice, Jehovah
is really a lesser god known as the Demiurge, and the magus John Dee's
experiments with angels are true and repeatable. Here you'll discover a
nun who has the expertise and agility of a Ninja warrior, the
reincarnated snake goddess known as the Daughter of Light, the famed
Florentine magician Pico Della Mirandola, a young magus who is part
stone, the Knights Templar of the Crimson Cross, the sapphire tablet:
the most secret of the Dead Sea scrolls, and a 15th Century dirigible
kept aloft by imprisoned souls. Here you'll find wild adventure and
Machiavellian subtlety, treason and heroism, love and carnality, joy and
loss, magic, machines, the cosmic machinations of angels, demons, gods,
and half-gods; and the absolutely breathtaking vistas that are their
battle grounds. Join Louisa Morgan, Lucian Ben-Hananiah, and the
fellowship of The Dark Companions in their apocalyptic battle against
the Demiurge--described in the forbidden Gnostic texts as the demon god
Yaldabaoth... and known to us as Jehovah.