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The Darkness Series

Map by Miguel Roces
Note: According to Dr. Turtledove, the map in the Earthlight first edition of Into the Darkness is not entirely correct.

The Darkness series is the story of a world war in a world where magic works. When the Duke of Bari suddenly dies, the nation of Algarve, long seething over its defeat a generation ago in the Six Years' War, sees its change to bring his country back, as they see it, into the Algarvian fold--which the countries surrounding Algarve cannot, by treaty, tolerate. As nation after nation declares war, a chain of treaties are invoked, ultimately bringing almost all the Powers into a war of unprecedented destructiveness.

For modern magic is deadlier than magic in eras past. Trained flocks of dragons rain explosive fire down on defenseless cities. Massed infantry race from place to place along a sophisticated network of ley-lines. Rival powers harness sea leviathans to help sabotage one another's ships. The lights are going out all across Derlavai, and will not come back on in this lifetime.

Into the Darkness, Tor 4/99
- Harriet Klausner's Review of Into the Darkness at BookBrowser
- Review at SF Site, 5/99
- Steven Silver's Review of Into the Darkness
- Steven Silver's Review of Into the Darkness from BookPage, 4/99
Darkness Descending, Tor 4/00
- CNN's Review of Darkness Descending, 8/29/00 by L.D. Meagher.
- Steven Silver's Review of Darkness Descending
Through the Darkness, Tor 3/01
- Steven Silver's Review of Through the Darkness
Rulers of the Darkness, Tor 4/02
- Joseph Major's Review of Rulers of the Darkness, Fosfax 205
- Steven Silver's Review of Rulers of the Darkness
Jaws of the Darkness, Tor 4/03
- Steven Silver's Review of Jaws of Darkness
Out of the Darkness, Tor 3/04
- Paul Hanley's Review of Out of the Darkness at Crow's Nest
- Steven Silver's Review of Out of the Darkness


Into the Darkness Tor, 1999 Bob Eggleton	Darkness Descending Tor, 2000 Bob Eggleton	Darkness Descending Earthlight, 2000 Bob Eggleton

Through the Darkness Tor, 2001 Bob Eggleton	Through the Darkness Earthlight, 2001 Bob Eggleton	Rulers of the Darkness Tor, 2002 Bob Eggleton

Jaws of Darkness Tor, 2003 Bob Eggleton	Out of the Darkness Tor, 2004 Bob Eggleton	nell'Oscurit� Fanucci, 1999 Bob Eggleton

	I signori dell'oscurit� Fanucci, 2003 John Howe

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