Tower Of Babel

Classic World of Darkness Fiction

by John H. Steele

Meet Max Zorn, Inquisitor for the Theocracy, the benevolently despotic oligarchy that rules the world. Zorn has recently defeated a dangerous enemy of the Theocracy and is about to embark upon a crusade against the subversive organization that spawned him.
In reality, however, Zorn is a character created by author Ron Church, a man with untapped magickal potential who has unconsciously imbued his fictional character and world with more than literary life.
When Zorn comes into direct coFootballict with Ron, his Creator, both their worlds are shattered. Zorn runs afoul of his brothers in the Theocracy, while Ron is discovered by the Technocracy, a group of mages intent upon stifling his magickal activities.

Genres: Fantasy, World Of Darkness

295 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 15, 1995

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can I say how much I ended up liking this book? I found it on Waterstones out of sheer luck, it had a sticker with a price on it, the boy at the teller didn't even know they had the book on the store. And I just got it because I was looking for some SF to read.
I was pleasantly surprised with the story. It didn't begin in any impressive sort of way. It actually seemed not a nice story at the beginning and then, Ron came in and it suddenly got interesting.
And then, almost half way through something else happen that I was definitely not expecting, but that made a whole lot of sense, and then it was... oh so much fun.
It felt a bit like 'Inception' (a good kind of Inception), it was a very messy story, again, the good kind of messy. And when I had 20 pages left it seemed that Ron's story was just beginning, and I was wondering exactly how he intended to give it a conclusion with 20 pages left, and with all this stuff going on that had just started 10 pages ago.
It was quite exciting, and I was quite happy with how it all fell into place.
And I ended up really liking it. A nice story, nice change from my regular SF books.

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Somehow I'd managed to read every other Mage novel back in the day. This one didn't do much for me, so I suppose it was all for the best.

[Jorge Rosas · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me, it was an interesting history at the beginning not a remarkable good history but it was fine, the hole plot of the theocracy and this good guy been an inquisitor, well that couldn´t last, but in an amazing way it didn´t follow that way of thinking but a complete different plot came out when Ron Church appeared and from then on, it was such an impressive book! The collision of universes and a thin line between realities, the God morals and the creator been such an entity. I really liked it, it also fed my paranoia with Irene and the Big picture plot.

[Brett]

Fantasy