And Then There'll Be Fireworks

by Suzette Haden Elgin

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385158785
• ISBN13: 9780385158787
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tying up loose ends

As the closing book in a trilogy should, this third in the "Ozark Fantasy Trilogy" ties up not only the dangling ends of plot left behind in its predecessor (The Grand Jubilee), but finally answers several of the questions readers may have had about Planet Ozark and its peculiar society and situation. When we pick up the story, Responsible of Brightwater has lain in pseudocoma for going on two years, and her world is in big trouble: for reasons no one seems to fully understand, her absence as a functioning, if much-resented, female Magician has lain the planet open to plague, war, crop failure, and all the host of little mortal ills ordinarily kept at bay by the Magicians and Grannies--who've lost the power to do so. A deputation of Grannies therefore seeks out Responsible's exiled older sister Troublesome, asking her to sail to the continent of Kintucky and approach Lewis Motley Wommack the 33rd, whom they believe to be somehow connected with Responsible's state. Troublesome at first is loudly skeptical of any such possibility, but go she does in the end, and much to her astonishment learns that the Grannies guessed right. After that it's up to her and the mystic Silverweb of McDaniels to find a way to bring Responsible out of her pseudocoma--something the no-longer-magical Magicians of Rank, try though they have, haven't been able to do. But there isn't much time, for the skies of Ozark are suddenly filled with huge, humming crystals sent by the mysterious "Garnet Ring," a self-described organization of planets whose society, like Ozark's, is based on magic, and who have decided, in the wake of the events of the previous volume, to take the place over! Shorter than the previous book and headlong in pace, this closing volume is a masterful finish to a delightful trilogy.

An exciting mix of science fiction and fantasy!

This book will soon be back in print through the University of Arkansas Press! The whole trilogy is a wonderful walk through a society which escaped from a polluted Earth to find a new place to live, bringing along a unique social structure. The characters are engaging and interesting, with the heroine Responsible of Brightwater leading the pack. I highly recommend this trilogy.