The Black Throne
 SHE SANG BEYOND THE GENIUS OF THE SEA,
AND HE HEARD...
As children they met and built sand castles on a beach out of space and time: Edgar Perry, Little Annie, and Edgar Allan Poe.... Fifteen years later, Perry meets Annie again, all grown up and beautiful - and in the real world. She warns him of his mortal peril, then flees for Europe on a mysterious black ship.
Perry is recruited by a fabulously wealthy man to follow that ship to Europe where he meets the famed detective Auguste Dupin, has an encounter with a Maelstrom and a black raven, has a run in with a Pit and a Pendulum, and lives many more of the stories his alter ego, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote. He and Poe have exchanged places: Perry will thrive in the dark, romantic world where lead can be transmuted to gold, ravens can speak, orangutans can commit murder, and beautiful women are easy to come by; while Poe is now doomed to live out his life a misfit, and end as a pauper, a drunk, and a genius....
". .. original and truly excellent. . . . One of the strangest and most compelling fantasies I've ever read."
— Science Fiction Chronicle
"Two excellent authors have mes styles, imaginations, and visions of Poe good effect here . . . recommended. .
— Booklist
". . . intelligent, lively, fun-loving adventures ... an awful lot of fun."
— The New York Review Science Fiction
Cover art by Patrick Turner
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real
people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, October 1990
Second printing, November 2002
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ISBN: 0-7434-3579-6
Copyright 1990 by Amber Corporation and Fred Saberhagen
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