Threshold (47 page)

Authors: Sara Douglass

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Thanks and acknowledgements also go to Rodney Blackhirst for his enthusiastic exposition of the One (and for those fascinating bodily fractions), Terry Mills for his interesting association of infinity with a Big Mac, Cliff Carrington for his knowledge of the pyramids, and Roger Sworder for an illuminating (and refreshingly frank) discussion of the nuptial number. It was fun, guys, but I bet you wish now you’d never let me in the front door.

And with deepest apologies to Pythagorus, Plato, Euclid…

About the Author

Sara Douglass was born in Penola, South Australia and moved to Adelaide when she was seven. She spent her early working life as a nurse before completing three degrees at the University of Adelaide. After receiving a PhD in early modern English history, Sara worked as a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at La Trobe University, Bendigo, until 2000.

Sara’s first novel,
BattleAxe
, was published in 1995 and she has been writing and publishing ever since. Three of her novels are winners of the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy.

Sara now lives in Hobart, Tasmania.

Visit Sara’s website at: www.saradouglass.com

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Praise for Sara Douglass’ Axis Trilogy

‘
BattleAxe
is the best Australian fantasy novel I’ve experienced to date.’

M
ARTIN
L
IVINGS,
Eidolon

‘
Enchanter
is utterly enthralling and unputdownable.’

K
AREN
B
ROOKS,
OzLit

‘A wonderfully quirky and intelligent romp…

The Axis Trilogy
is impressive. There are few absolutes in making judgements of commercial fantasy, but let’s just say that it’s a bit better than anything by Robert Jordan.’

P
ETER
N
ICHOLLS
,
Australian Book Review

Books by Sara Douglass

The Axis Trilogy

BattleAxe
(Book One)

Enchanter
(Book Two)

StarMan
(Book Three)

Threshold

The Wayfarer Redemption

Sinner
(Book One)

Pilgrim
(Book Two)

Crusader
(Book Three)

Beyond the Hanging Wall

The Crucible

The Nameless Day
(Book One)

Wounded Hawk
(Book Two)

The Crippled Angel
(Book Three)

The Troy Game

Hades’ Daughter
(Book One)

God’s Concubine
(Book Two)

Darkwitch Rising
(Book Three)

Druid’s Sword
(Book Four)

DarkGlass Mountain

The Serpent Bride
(Book One)

The Twisted Citadel
(Book One)

Copyright

Harper
Voyager

An imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers

First published in Australia in 1997

This edition published in 2010

by HarperCollins
Publishers
Australia Pty Limited

ABN 36 009 913 517

www.harpercollins.com.au

The right of Sara Douglass to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the
Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the
Copyright Act 1968
, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Douglass, Sara.

Threshold.

ISBN: 978 0 7322 5749 1. (pbk.)

ISBN: 978-0-730-49200-9 (epub)