The Sorcerer from Atlantis is the 9th book in the Tales of the Emerald City series by Sergei Sukhinov. It was published in 2002.
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In this exciting ninth installment of Sukhinov's monumental Emerald City saga, Almar, crushed by the defeat suffered by the Magic Land forces in Book 7, makes a perilous excursion around the Underground Kingdom, seeking information as well as his enslaved father, and meets a new ally. Meanwhile, Ellie and her friends make an idyllic trip of their own through another plane of existence and presently meet the great sorcerer Torn himself.
After leaving his friends, Almar makes a perilous excursion around the Underground Kingdom. He gains allies there, including Changar the Dragon, whom he finds on an island resembling a solidified cloud, and some human warriors who have been exiled to the Isle of Death after their failure to stop the landing of the invaders. Then he gets into the slave-labor camp where his father Oldar has been imprisoned, and the two are reunited briefly at the top of the immense Stairway that Pakir has been building, supposedly to use to ascend to the surface after he has acquired the Black Flame. But it comes out that Pakir’s true use of the Flame will be to burn the Portal of Darkness and allow the monstrous Star Legionaries to come in from the stars and conquer the earth. Almar is obliged to leave Oldar there for now, and the next ally he makes is the Whale, a bitter foe of Pakir’s, who takes him to the Haven of Hope in order for him to learn the secret of the sinister Portal.
Meanwhile, Ellie, Strasheela, Tom, and Polkan travel to Goodwin’s Peak (as in Book 4), and Pakir contrives to seal off their way back. They are reunited with Goodwin (solid again after the demise of his other self in the Outer World), and they make a fabulous journey now through this alternate universe to see Torn. Their path leads them to a Phantom Village, where a Druid priest exposes Polkan as a spy and detains him there. Then they go through Torn’s Sanctuary, where they are obliged to resist great temptations, and the Maze of Mirrors, which turns into a replica of the Emerald City, though made up of multicolored stars. At last they meet the great Torn himself, who receives them splendidly. After some consultation and granting of wishes (among which Tom the plush Bear becomes a human), Torn invites Goodwin to stay there with him and sends the others back to the real world via another route.
Sergei Sukhinov's Magic Land books | ||||
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Tales of the Emerald City | 1. Gingema's Daughter 2. The Fairy of the Emerald City 3. The Sorceress Villina's Secret 4. The Sorcerer's Sword 5. The Eternally Youthful Stella 6. Parcelius the Alchemist 7. Battle in the Underground Land 8. King Midgety 9. The Sorcerer from Atlantis 10. The Knights of Light and Darkness | |||
Fairy Tales of the Emerald City | 1. Corina the Lazy Sorceress 2. Corina and the Ogre 3. The Sorceress Villina's Ward 4. The Little Dragon 5. The Crystal Island 6. Corina and the Magic Rhino 7. Three in the Enchanted Forest 8. The Black Fog 9. Master of the Winged Monkeys Prequel: Goodwin the Great and Terrible |