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THE TIDES OF AVARICE

BLIMEY!

It's something all pirates are taught when they're small, but too many of them forget:
Never get on the wrong side of a librarian.

Especially if the librarian is a lemming!

Sylvester used to read about cannibals, impenetrable jungles, lethal carnivores, mysterious fortune-tellers, voodoo magic, cutthroat pirates, shipwrecks, mutinies, spaceships and much else in his books, but he never thought he'd encounter them for real.

Can Sylvester save his sweetheart, Viola, her frighteningly gritty mom and the other friends he's acquired along the way? Can he find his long-lost father, rescue his hometown of Foxglove from the murderous rule of its ruthless mayor, and discover true happiness?

Oh, did we mention that Sylvester has mistakenly received the most sought after treasure map ever? This means he also has to escape from the cruelest and craziest pirate captain who ever sailed the seas of Sagaria - the horrifying Cap'n Terrigan Rustbane who will stop at nothing to get his map back! A map which leads to a treasure beyond the wildest dreams of avarice...

It's kind of a tall order.

But then Sylvester is a librarian. And a lemming.


REVIEW

"Every now and then a fantasy novel comes along that seems to have the lot- adventure, romance, page- turning suspense, wild imagination and that rarest of commodities, a genuine good spirit - and John Dahlgren's huge, sprawling, immensely readable epic The Tides of Avarice is one such. It is constantly inven- tive, peopled by a wonderful array of larger-than-life characters, full of edge-of-the-seat excitement and did I mention that it is also hilariously funny? Before you open The Tides of Avarice, you'd better plan on not getting any sleep tonight..."

JOHN GRANT
Hugo and World Fantasy
Award-winning author