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The Magician
Spider World 05
by Colin Wilson
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About Spider World
Welcome to twenty-fifth century Earth, a land lorded over by giant spiders and
beetles, whose ever-expanding consciousness has supplanted our own ever-diminishing
one. Humans are forced into a hard life of servitude in the great spider cities. A fortunate
few forced to hide out in the wastelands subsist in caves, fearful of the spiders' constant
death patrols.
From among this now-inferior race rises a young man named Niall, whose powers
of mind rival those of the spiders. Niall leads an assault on the very heart of the spiders'
city and strength, and discovers the mysterious source of their power: an alien energy
whose pulse is worshipped by the nonhuman life-forms of Earth.
Colin Wilson's epic visionary fiction has been hailed by reviewers, who say it is
"wonderfully well imagined" and "skillfully executed" and even predict that it "will
become a bestseller in the tradition of The Lord of the Rings." Like all classic fantasy,
Spider World is both a grand escape and a cautionary, yet hopeful, tale for our times.

The Magician
Niall, now ruler of the spider city, is horrified by a brutal murder that threatens
the delicate relationship between the spiders and humans who share the city. Niall uses
his psychic ability to track down the killers, but is thwarted in his effort to solve the crime
as each conspirator mysteriously dies.
The most obvious clues lead to a being Niall has only seen in a dream: The
Magician.
In his quest to find the Magician, Niall makes shocking discoveries about both his
own people and the rapidly evolving spiders, whose desire for peace forced them to
conquer and forge an empire with the labor of human slaves.

COLIN WILSON is the author of more than eighty books, including his original
classic The Outsider, which has been continuously in print for nearly five decades. His
work ranges from existential philosophy, psychology, and criminology to fiction, plays,
and the examination of the paranormal.
His Spider World novels, which originally delighted a science fiction audience,
are even more brilliant today in light of the growing interest in metaphysics,
consciousness, extraterrestrials, the future of humankind, and the environment. Wilson
lives in Cornwall, England.



Copyright ┬й 2002 by Colin Wilson
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