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Prelude to a Change of Mind (The Lands of Nod)

Literature & Fiction

Stikmanz, Robert

Literary

Dalton Pub

This fully interactive work comes as a boxed set including a wisdom book, a journal and three custom dice that allow readers to divine deeper meaning from the book than what is solely printed on the pages. Drawing upon his skills as a poet, storyteller, illustrator and designer, author Robert Stikmanz has produced Nod's Way, a potent companion to his The Hidden Lands of Nod series. Nod's Way, the oracle of the Dvarsh, does not fit handily into familiar categories. It can be read as an authority or guide, like the Tao Te Ching, or it can be consulted as a fortune telling tool, like the I-Ching. Fleshing out the fictional world of the Dvarsh, a non-human people who have developed in tandem with homo sapiens, this central artifact of their culture represents the ancient wisdom and distilled values of the Dvarsh way of life.

Nod's Way: Or Hidden Dragon

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

This early edition is out of print and no longer has the endorsement of the author. Subsequent to this edition, the novel was extensively rewritten.

Entranscing

United States

Sleeper Awakes (The Hidden Lands of Nod)

Genre Fiction

This first novel of The Hidden Lands of Nod introduces all the themes and motifs that put fiction by Robert Stikmanz in a category apart: sly humor, an engaging cast, grand ideas, the magic of the ordinary, and mingled currents of eroticism and spirituality. In clear, beautiful language, Prelude to a Change of Mind blends fantasy, folklore and magical realism to evoke an entire universe through the events of a single season in a high mountain meadow. It's a small, remarkable book.

Prelude to a Change of Mind

Blue Moon Press

The second book in The Hidden Lands of Nod revisits Meg and her friends from the exile realms of the Dvarsh-the metamathemage, Ekaterina Rigidstick, and her cousin, the part-human poet, Jackanapes Plenty-in a vastly different reality twenty years on. Peril and possibility are equally afoot as Meg seeks to resolve lingering issues from her season on the mountain. This fast-moving follow-on to Prelude to a Change of Mind picks up and enlarges the tale of Meg, the Dvarsh, the Thrm, and their collective struggle to save both love and the planet.

Entranscing, the Second Book of the Hidden Lands of Nod, Newly Revised

Blue Moose Press

A concise guidebook to Dvarsh, the constructed language and writing system created by Stikmanz as part of the world of his contemporary fantasy cycle, this edition includes discussions of grammar, word formation, the writing system, a glossary of several hundred words, and elements of Dvarsh culture and history.

The Way It Grows: An Introduction to Dvarsh

Reference

Kimmerly, Amanda

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Confabule LLC

This volume includes a novella and a short story set in the fictional universe of Robert Stikmanz. The novella, Rose Moon, is a lyrical, erotically charged, psychedelic mashup, weaving shifting realities, passionate sex and a battle between ancient gods in a post-petroleum future. Set fifty years on, the short story, "Death on the Toilet," finds the same protagonist from Rose Moon tapped to substitute for doom itself.

Rose Moon & Death on the Toilet

Erotica

Stikmantica

Since it first appeared in 2000, PRELUDE TO A CHANGE OF MIND, the origin story of the HABDVARSHA universe, has gone in and out of print with three different publishers. Despite significant revision to the successive releases, author Robert Stikmanz remained dissatisfied with the still evolving text."Reworked from start to finish" best describes this new version from Stikmantica. For PRELUDE TO A CHANGE OF MIND, THE AUTHOR'S EDITION, A NOVEL OF HABDVARSHA, Stikmanz stripped the narrative to its familiar outline and rebuilt it, adding dimension to characters and setting, and tightening prose. The tale of Meg Christmas and her intersection with alternate worlds, mysterious forces and magical beings now takes definitive shape in a lively, engaging, completely fresh account.PRELUDE TO A CHANGE OF MIND, THE AUTHOR'S EDITION relaunches the entire cycle of fiction by Robert Stikmanz. The retitled series steps forward with this first book of HABDVARSHA.

Prelude to a Change of Mind, the Author's Edition: a Novel of Habdvarsha

Nod's Way, the Author's Edition

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

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