A Spell of Empire
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Having left the city of Worms hurriedly when his master's final conjuration resulted in a congealed magician, Volker finds himself in Nurnberg. He is offered work by a rich merchant who asks him to recruit three bravos to accompany them on a perilous journey. And thus - not without some minor disasters - is formed a group of modern musketeers whose motto might be "All For One and Each For Himself!"
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Michael Scott Rohan (1951 - 2018)
Michael Scott Rohan, born in Edinburgh in 1951, writes both fantasy and science fiction. Whilst studying law at Oxford, Rohan joined the SF group and met the president, Allan J Scott, who started him writing for the group's semi-professional magazine SFinx alongside names such as Robert Holdstock and Ian Watson. His first novel, Run to the Stars, was published in 1983 and he collaborated with Allan J Scott on The Hammer and the Cross, a non-fiction account of how Christianity arrived in Viking lands. Rohan is best known for his acclaimed The Winter of the World sequence, an epic fantasy set in and ice-bound world. He passed away in 2018.
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Allan J. Scott (1952 - )
Born in 1952, Allan James Julius Scott began writing at a very early age. His first published work of genre interest was "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", which appeared in the 1982 edition of Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters anthology. As editor of the Oxford University Science Fiction Group's magazine SFinx, Scott met Michael Scott Rohan, with whom he later collaborated on a number of titles, including The Hammer and the Cross, The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.
