Author: James Blish Year: 1968 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
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ISBNs: 9780380595686 9780899683928 0380595680 0899683924 |
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Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment. Together, those two very short novels form the third part of the thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy (title from T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion," "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?") with A Case of Conscience & Dr. Mirabilis. Black Easter was serialised as Faust aleph-null in If magazine.
This book is part of the "After Such Knowledge" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Devil's Day" First published in 1980 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Doctor Mirabilis" First published in 1964 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Case of Conscience" First published in 1958 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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