Magic Time : Angelfire
Maya Kathryn Bohnhoff
EOS, 12/02
ISBN:0061050695
Reality is not what it was. Desperate science run amok has collided with dark sorcery, and
together they have ripped open a gaping wound into... something. Now, in an instant,
everything is different. The horrific is mundane, the impossible rational. Nothing works and
everyone pays.Welcome to ... Magic Time.
For rising young lawyer Cal Griffin, it's just another day in the Big City, full of stress,
screw-ups, deadlines, and anxiety. That is, until New York is rocked by a series of bizarre
tremors -- and the lights go off...for good. Trapped in a giant metropolis and cut off from the
rest of the world, Cal tries desperately to make sense of the surreal chaos that engulfs his
crippled city. Worst of all, the people around him are...changing. Once ordinary humans are
becoming embodiments of their darkest desires, manifestations of their deepest fears. Packs of
pale, crouched figures stalk the subways, glowing child-faces peer out of the shadows...and
monsters prowl Times Square.
Similar weirdness is happening everywhere, from the dank, cold heart of a West Virginia coal
mine to a remote lab in South Dakota -- where an overworked team of government physicists
has unwittingly invited something catastrophic into the world -- to the highest levels of power
in Washington, D.C.
And Cal Griffin is not the only one who will be forced into a strange new role in this brave new
world of nightmare and wonder. A spinster school-teacher, a lonely miner, a refugee doctor, a
visionary street person, a brooding Secret Service agent, all share a staggering responsibility
with the young attorney to make sense of the senseless -- and to follow an awesome destiny.
For they are to be soldiers in a titanic battle between darkness and light. And its raging hellfires
will effect the most astonishing transformation of all -- turning a young man of pure heart into
that rarest of creatures: a hero.
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