The World and Thorinn

By: Damon Knight

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Synopsis: [from inside flaps] "Thorinn felt pretty bad. First his father and brothers (who had given him a name meaning "flea") force him down a dry well. Then he falls through the bottom. Things couldn't possibly get worse. But they do, in this warming and exciting story of Thorinn and the world he sets out to conquer, by science fiction's master Hugo-Award-winning Golden Age storyteller, Damon Knight. Damon Knight's fine novel neatly mixes science fiction and fantasy in its account of Thorinn undertaking a journey no less significant than Columbus's. Buried alive, Thorinn discovers that the only way out is down. He travels to the center of the earth, visiting strange principalities, hidden worlds encysted in mammoth caverns, old and young races, and a ruling intelligence. Through all this Thorinn succeeds (for the most part) in keeping his good heart (with a few lessons in patience along the way) and sense of curiosity. When Thorinn ultimately meets his maker, the reader exults in a story well told and a success well earned."