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THE SIEGE OF WONDER
by Mark Geston


Flyleaf:

After centuries of fighting wizards, dedicated scientists have found the
answer to winning the war: turn magic into science. Reduce it to its final
empirical base, to be read and studied.
But to gather such information, the Special Office decides a transmitter
must be implanted in a legendary unicorn, the prize talisman of the most
powerful magician. Then it can spy upon the highest councils of sorcery and
the daily transmissions analyzed.
Wearing this electronic eye in place of his own, Aden enters the Holy
City and carries out the mission. But it leaves him vulnerable to the wonders
of enchantment, and he wanders the middle ground betwen two warring forces.
Eventually he realizes the eye must be retrieved or the unicorn
destroyed before science learns the innermost secrets of divine creation.
As scientific rationality picks up momentum and the enchantment of the
enemy crumbles away before it, Arden -- and those out to stop him -- races to
find the unicorn . . .



Copyright 1976 by Mark S. Geston. All Rights Reserved.

All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. 1976.

First Edition

ISBN 0-385-11359-5

Printed in the United States of America




'I desire no other monument than the laughter of the madmen I have
caused to be set loose upon the universe. .

From the testament of Ahman
al-Akhmoriahd, fifth century
of the Holy Qty, written in
anticipation of the battle
at Quetez (Heartbreak Ridge)