Black Easter: or Or Faust Aleph-Null

Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment. Together, those two very short novels form the third part of the thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy (title from T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion," "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?") with A Case of Conscience & Dr. Mirabilis. Black Easter was serialised as Faust aleph-null in If magazine. ABC : 11 Genre : Science-Fiction Formats : EPUB, MOBI Baines is a filthy rich arms dealer and connoisseur of destruction. Ware is the greatest living black magician. They will work together to throw the world into chaos. And not even the efforts of the white magicians of Monte Albano will stop them. A Gripping Story About Primal Evil: A Sinister Intermingling Of Power, Politics, Modern Theology, The Dark Forces Of Necromancy, And What Proves, All Too Terribly, Not To Be Superstition.