Angel Isle (51 page)

FOOTNOTES

^*1
The prestige of course derives from the fact that the field to which the mathematics is applied is magic.
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^**2
We are more familiar with this sort of thing than we realize. It is impossible to imagine the square root of minus one, but formulae that involve it can have important practical results, such as the atom bomb.
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^*3
It is perhaps worth noting that we have intuitively designated seven as
the
magical number.
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^**4
In pre-Fodaran thaumaturgy wild magic was thought to be released whenever someone died. This is only partly true. It can come from other sources, including touching points, but the death of any living creature involves the departure of the individual anima into hyperspace, with a compensating flow of energy in the reverse direction.
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About the Author

Peter Dickinson is the author of many books for adults and young readers and has won numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal (twice), the
Guardian
Award, and the Whitbread Award (also twice).
The Ropemaker
was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for excellence in young adult literature, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Mythopoeic Society Children’s Fantasy Award. Dickinson’s novel
Eva
was a
Boston Globe–Horn Book
Fiction Honor Book.
Eva
was also selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, as were Dickinson’s novels
AK
and
A Bone from a Dry Sea.
His most recent book for Random House was
Inside Grandad.
Peter Dickinson has four grown children and lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, the writer Robin McKinley.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE:

Inside Grandad

The Tears of the Salamander

The Ropemaker

The Kin

The Lion Tamer’s Daughter

and Other Stories

Chuck and Danielle

Shadow of a Hero

Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera

A Bone from a Dry Sea

AK

Eva

Merlin Dreams

A Box of Nothing

Giant Cold

Healer

The Seventh Raven

City of Gold

and Other Stories from the Old Testament

Tuklu

Hepzibah

Annerton Pit

The Blue Hawk

The Gift

The Dancing Bear

Emma Tupper’s Diary

THE CHANGES TRILOGY:

The Weathermonger

Heartsease

The Devil’s Children

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Text copyright © 2006 by Peter Dickinson

Interior illustrations copyright © 2006 by Ian Andrew

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dickinson, Peter.

p.    cm.

Sequel to: The Ropemaker.

Summary: While seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley, Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit twenty-four of the empire’s most powerful and evil magicians.

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Andrew, Ian P., ill. II. Title.

PZ7.D562Am 2007

[Fic]—dc22

2007007053

eISBN: 978-0-375-89083-3

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