I Read Stories: A Random Walk Through The Goblin Library by Chris Willrich

 

A Random Walk Through The Goblin Library by Chris Willrich in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

You have been a thief of books all your life. You know much of the secrets of magic, and of mathematical structure. Of labyrinths, of escape, of dimensions, of the way that goblins keep a library.

Your freedom depends on finding a book. You were trained by your grandfather, a necromancer, the first you stole books from. You will find a way out.

A tour de force of mazes, mathematics and magic libraries, using each to comment on one another, the twisty minds of goblins a backdrop to sordid coercion.

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