The Atlan Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Gaskell Lynch
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—high fantasy
- Time of Work: Prehistory
- Setting: South America and the continent of Atlan (Atlantis)
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Escapes, Gods or goddesses, Prophecy or prophets, South America or South Americans, Apes, Prehistoric times, Atlantis
- Locales: South America, Mythical lands
The Plot
Cija (pronounced Key-a), hereditary goddess of a small realm in prehistoric South America, spends the first seventeen years of her life confined to an abandoned castle tower because it has been prophesied that she will bring about the downfall of her nation. The people of her country have been told that she died shortly after birth. Meanwhile, she has been taught that men no longer exist, so when she first encounters Zerd—the half-man, half- serpent to whom her fate is intimately tied—snooping around her tower, she thinks he is an extremely ugly, and insolent,...
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