Moonbane

By Al Sarrantonio

Book Overview

Mythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of myth in the structure of societies past and present-how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions about ourselves and our world. Almost all of Mythologies, originally published as a two-volume cloth set, is now available in four paperback volumes. These volumes reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set, and each includes a new Preface by Wendy Doniger. This volume gathers eighty articles on mythologies from around the world. A section on the Americas and the South Pacific covers myths of native Americans, from the Inuit to the Mesoamericans, about such topics as the cosmos, fire, and the creation of the world. Essays on African mythology range from the 266 basic signs of West Africa to themes such as twins, the placenta, and masks. The final section, covering Celtic, Norse, and Slavic traditions opens with an overview of the Indo-Europeans and concludes with an essay on the religion and myths of Armenia.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553281860
• ISBN13: 9780553281866
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Moonbane

This is a fast paced, intense read of horror and survival as mankind faces extinction from beings from Space. I've seen this type of plot before and this is one that clearly succeeds. The book offers up a unique view and suggested origins for the myths of Lycanthropy and marrying it successfully to science-fiction. This book had me hooked from the get go and I couldn't put it down til a couple hours later when I finally finished it.

Apocalyptic horror

What I really like about Al Sarrantonio is his uncanny ability to marry some fantastic science-fiction with gut wrenching horror to produce a story unlike no other. This tale is of the abomination of man kind as it is pushed a step down on the food chain and its feeble struggle against a superhuman force. Moonbane is about Jason Blake, a poet, who witnessed a meteor shower with his son, so blinding and luminous that it made night as bright as day raining rocks from outer space. We learn they aren't simply rocks, but containers for slumbering seeds that spawn a beast that is so smart and deadly that it sees nothing else but elimination of mankind while it spawns all continents and leaves no person unharmed. As Blake's family falls victim to the beast we follow him into survival mode as he hides away in his own house, fending off the attacker, while his bitten son begins the transformation, his loyalty to mankind makes an abrupt change that sends his father into a spiral of preserving life of men with revenge and a strong urgency for vengeance. Blake and a handful of others set up an expedition to NASA while tearing through hordes of werewolves who even slinked around in broad daylight and who were savage and ultra fast at night Overall this was a very fast and intense read, and I cannot recommend it enough if you are interested in tale of extinction, lycanthropy and man's struggle against a force that makes his base, his core, the soul of his existence; Earth, the home of man an unwelcoming place to be, and with the only way out to simply give up and fall back into the animals claws. This writer is certainly on top of my list, for spawning such amazing pieces of literary fiction. I love horror movies with werewolves, but reading it in a book felt like having the wind knocked out of you, I had a blast. Enjoy, I know I did!

Very entertaining

This is a great story, with an interesting, yet played out doomsday plot. The detail paints horrifying images in your head, and creates a true sense of foreboading as you read. This is a very entertaining story, that you can't seem to put down page after page. A really good book for a quick afternoon of sci-fi horror.