num_pages: 390
description: There is more than one history of the world.Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments, not Egypt -- but Ægypt.What if it were really so?In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Ægypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe -- that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it, a key, perhaps, to Ægypt.
language: English
title: Ægypt
titlecomplete: Ægypt
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Mystery, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2061
series: The Ægypt Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Bantam