Ok I have looked for these books for quite some time and I cant ever
find them so I will give you a list of the scenes I can remember from
the books and hope you can find out the title and author of the books.
In one scene there was a carnival type event and there was a merry go
round that was run by some gnomes and when the main character got on
the merry go round he was wisked away to a secret gnome hideout that
two gnomes were using as a base of operations to carry out their task
of collecting 2 of each species on the planet.
I'm not sure if this scene was in the same book or not but it was in
the same series of books. There were some gnomes (not sure if they
were gnomes or some other type of small humanoid) and they were using
a catapult as a means to get people up to higher levels of the hollow
mountain they lived in. I'm not sure if this was in the exact same
scene but there were more gnomes trying to put together a large black
orb.
In these books there were more moons than just one that people could
use to draw power from they were differnt colors red, and black were
two of the colors I think. |
Request for Question Clarification by
juggler-ga
on
05 Oct 2005 18:40 PDT
In approximately what year did you first encounter these books? Were
these "young adult" books or were they aimed at an older audience?
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Clarification of Question by
jason83-ga
on
06 Oct 2005 09:00 PDT
I first encountered these books in the mid 90's but I think they were
a little older than that but I'm not sure. I think the book was
targeted towards teens but I dont remember much about them so I might
be wrong.
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Clarification of Question by
jason83-ga
on
13 Oct 2005 13:59 PDT
I thought of another scene / character from the books today. There was
a character that was writing down all the events that were happining
in the world he might have been called the oracle or something of that
nature.
Also I think there were people that were riding dragons in a battle?
of course I'm not sure on that either lol :-P
I doubt anyone will ever be able to find these books as the only thing
I can remember for sure about them is that they were a really good
read....
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Request for Question Clarification by
hummer-ga
on
13 Oct 2005 17:38 PDT
Hi jason83,
Michael Coney's "Song of the Earth" series is a possibility -
Book 1: Celestial Steam Locomotive
Book 2: Gods of the Greatway
Book 3: Fang the Gnome
Book 4: King of the Scepter'd Isle
Fang the Gnome by Michael Coney
"In those days Earth had three moons, and magic could change the
destiny of the human race, the race of gnomes, and indeed the destiny
of beings not yet even imagined. And it was possible for the sorceress
Avalona, mother to Merlin and mentor to the human called Nyneve, to
work her spells to bend the many happentracks to her will. For there
was a wider universe called the Greataway, where there were many
imaginable futures and many happentracks. Each time an important
decision was made or a crucial event occurred, new happentracks were
created. It was Avalona's task to alter and control these happentracks
to avert that most tragic event of the distant future, the death of
their god---Starquin.".
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=574518160
Photo:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=252980300
If this is it, please let me know and I'll help you find the "best buy".
hummer
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Clarification of Question by
jason83-ga
on
14 Oct 2005 08:03 PDT
Hmmm I looked these books up on google and it seems like they are
sci-fi books I think the books that I read were pure fantasy also the
main character in these books doesnt seem familiar. I am going to try
to get a better description of these books after I leave work though
to make sure they are not it.
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Clarification of Question by
jason83-ga
on
16 Oct 2005 11:18 PDT
I've looked into those books further and I dont believe they are the
ones I am looking for. Thank you for trying though
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Request for Question Clarification by
juggler-ga
on
16 Oct 2005 23:41 PDT
A book called "Kendermore" (Volume II of the Dragonlance Preludes
series) features a carousel operated by gnomes.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880387548/
The text of the book seems to be available here (the gnomes' carousel
is prominently featured around pages 150-155):
http://www.books-books.org/books/dragonlance/dragonlance_preludes_1vol2_kendermore/dragonlance_preludes_1vol2_kendermore_dragonlance.pdf
Could this be the book have mind?
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Request for Question Clarification by
juggler-ga
on
16 Oct 2005 23:42 PDT
Typo: "Could this be the book that you have in mind?"
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Clarification of Question by
jason83-ga
on
17 Oct 2005 13:41 PDT
You are awsome that is exactly the book(s) I was looking for
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