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Author:Richard A. Lupoff
Title:The Black Tower
Subtitle:The Dungeon Volume 1
Publisher:  Bantam
Country:UK
Date:Dec 1989
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:055340024X
Total Editions:2
First Published:  1988
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Richard A. Lupoff - The Black Tower - Bantam Spectra - Paperback - USA - 0553273469 (1988)

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ppint.
6th Mar 2022
 transworld publishers bantam books imprint uk p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by robert gould
b+w interior illustrations also by robert gould
cover price £3.99
368pp? (check) including titles, indicia, forward etc, end pp.
 
 
ppint.
21st Aug 2018
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philip josé farmer's the dungeon series #1:

#1: "the black tower" richard a. lupoff (1988) (this novel)
#2: "the dark abyss" bruce coville (1989), q.v.
#3: "the valley of thunder" charles de lint (1989), q.v.
#4: "the lake of fire" robin w. bailey (1989), q.v.
#5: "the hidden city" charles de lint (1990), q.v.
#6: "the final battle" richard a. lupoff (1990), q.v.

each of the six novels has an introduction by philip josé farmer, who provided at least an outline and a jumping-off point for the setting, and the central character, nineteenth century c.e. explorer, clive folliot, who is searching for his twin brother, neville; and the nature of the world of the dungeon is elaborated, but never fully explained; nor is it necessarily internally self-consistent.

the authors of succeeding books pick up from the previous books' situations and expanding dramatis personae, including aliens from hitherto unknown races; but whether the world of the dungeon is single, or multiple; whether it (or they) possess(es) multiple shells, or are separate worlds linked by portals, exists within this earth's hollow interior, or perhaps that of an asteroid - or more than one; possibilities are proposed and suggestions are made, but no definitive answer ever established, any more than the reason(s) for its construction, its population by the human or alien people brought to it; nor are reasons for the actions and intentions of its hidden masters and their agents are ever definitively established.

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