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Syren (book)
''Syren'' is the fifth book in the child fantasy ''Septimus Heap'' series by Angie Sage. It was released on September 29, 2009 by HarperCollins and Bloomsbury Publishing. Sage went on a book promotion tour for ''Syren'' as well as a contest to promote it further. The story continues from the previous release ''Queste'' and deals with Septimus going to pick up his friends from a distant land. While coming back they are trapped in an island and there they learn of an evil plan to destroy their homeland, The Castle. The rest of the story deals with how Septimus and his friends save their home and destroy the evil coming their way. The book cover depicts Aunt Zelda’s live SafeCharm lying on Syrah’s book. Development Angie Sage had compared book five to Robinson Crusoe with "tentacles— lots of them". Commenting on the book, she says: I've planned the ending, and I'm already just drawing everything in, so with number seven, I can pretty much think what's going to happen. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Sage
Angie Sage (born 20 June 1952) is an English author of children's literature, including the ''Septimus Heap'' series, the ''TodHunter Moon'' trilogy, and the ''Araminta Spook'' series (''Araminta Spookie'', in the United States). Life According to her publisher's biography, Sage grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent. She tells how her publisher father brought home blank books, and she would write and illustrate her own stories in these. She began to study medicine, but moved instead to the Art School in Leicester to study graphic design and illustration, using these skills to begin illustrating books. Her first novel was the first in her ''Septimus Heap'' series: ''Magyk''. Board books *1998: ''Alphabet Express'' *1999: ''Number Bus'' *2000: ''Rainbow Rocket'' *2000: ''Animals on Safari'' *2000: ''Noah's Ark'' *2001: ''Alphabet Bus'' *2001: ''Learning Bus'' *2001: ''Farmyard Families'' *2002: ''Sea Life Sub'' Bibliography The following is a list of books written by Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Overstrand
Marcia Overstrand is a fictional character in the ''Septimus Heap'' series by Angie Sage. She is a powerful ''ExtraOrdinary Wizard''. Septimus is her apprentice. Description Marcia is described as a tall woman with characteristic green wizard eyes and long, dark, wavy hair. She wears a deep purple tunic, held at the waist by her "ExtraOrdinary Wizard" belt and a purple cloak which is part of her Magyk. Around her neck is the "Akhu Amulet of Hotep-Ra", the source of power for "ExtraOrdinary Wizards". Marcia also wears a pair of pointy purple python skin boots made for her by shoemaker Terry Tarsal. Terry very much dislikes snakes, and swears Marcia orders snakeskin on purpose. which may or may not be true. She has an aura of Magyk around her. Marcia can be fascinating and bossy, and scary to those around her. She is ambitious. Development The Marcia character was key in Sage's development and continuation of the Heap series, as she motivates a lot of Septimus's decisions. Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Septimus Heap Books
Septimus or Septimius may refer to: Romans People in Ancient Rome: * Septimus (praenomen), a praenomen or Roman personal name * Septimia gens, an ancient Roman family * Lucius Septimius, one of the assassins of Pompey the Great (d. 48 BC). * Septimius Severus, Roman general and emperor from AD 193 to 211 * L. Septimius Bassianus, better known as Caracalla, the elder son of Septimius Severus, emperor from 198 to 217 * P. Septimius Geta, the younger son of Septimius Severus, emperor from 209 to 211 * Septimius (usurper), a usurper proclaimed emperor in 271 during the reign of Aurelian * St Septimus (d. 303), martyred with SS Felix, Januarius, Fortunatus, and Audactus * Septimius Acindynus, consul in 340 * Lucius Septimius (Roman governor), 4th century governor of Britannia Prima * Q. Septimius Florens Tertullianus (c. 155– c. 240 AD), better known as Tertullian, theologian * St Septimius of Iesi (died 307), bishop and saint Palmyrenes People from the Palmyrene Empire: *Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinn In Popular Culture
Genies or djinns are supernatural creatures from pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology. They are associated with shapeshifting, possession and madness. In later Western popular representation, they became associated with wish-granting and often live in magic lamps or bottles. They appear in '' One Thousand and One Nights'' and its adaptations, among other stories. The wish-granting djinns from ''One Thousand and One Nights'', however, are the '' divs'' of Persian origin, not the Arabian djinns. Terminology ''Djinn'' is the original term. ''Genie'' was first used in the 1704 French translation of ''One Thousand and One Nights'' by Antoine Galland and is mostly associated with wish-granting djinns. '' Ifrit'' and ''marid'' typically refer to evil djinns. History Among the earliest depictions in fiction are the tales collated in ''One Thousand and One Nights''. Following its translation into European languages in the early 1700s, djinns or genies started appearing in Western liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Fantasy Novels
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 British Novels
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an Ascender (typography), ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silas Heap
Silas or Silvanus (; Greek: Σίλας/Σιλουανός; fl. 1st century AD) was a leading member of the Early Christian community, who according to the New Testament accompanied Paul the Apostle on his second missionary journey. Name and etymologies ''Silas'' is traditionally assumed to be the same as the ''Silvanus'' mentioned in four epistles. Some translations, including the New International Version, call him "Silas" in the epistles. Paul, Silas, and Timothy are listed as co-authors of the two New Testament letters to the Thessalonians, though the authorship is disputed. The ''Second Epistle to the Corinthians'' mentions Silas as having preached with Paul and Timothy to the church in Corinth (), and the First Epistle of Peter describes Silas as a "faithful brother" (). There is some disagreement over the original or "proper" form of his name: "Silas", "Silvanus", "Seila", and "Saul" seem to be treated at the time as equivalent versions of the same name in different lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Heap (Septimus Heap)
This article catalogs the key characters from the books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. These include the books ''Magyk'', '' Flyte'', '' Physik'', ''Queste'', '' Syren'', '' Darke'', and Fyre. Some characters play a central role in all the books, while others are only central to the plot in one or two of the books. When reviewing the first book in the series, ''Magyk'', Sabina Qazi of Dawn.com described the characters as follows:These characters remind us of the different types of people around us. Sage separates the qualities that make us who we are and typecasts them into these roles. The good and the bad characteristics are accompanied by the dull and the intelligent, the silly with the mature and the unapproachable with the loving. But this doesn’t mean that her characters are not well-rounded people. They are, but by highlighting certain aspects of their personality, she makes it easy for the reader to think of real people in terms of these characters. Thus an ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coma
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. Coma patients exhibit a complete absence of wakefulness and are unable to consciously feel, speak or move. Comas can be derived by natural causes, or can be medically induced. Clinically, a coma can be defined as the inability consistently to follow a one-step command. It can also be defined as a score of ≤ 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) lasting ≥ 6 hours. For a patient to maintain consciousness, the components of ''wakefulness'' and ''awareness'' must be maintained. Wakefulness describes the quantitative degree of consciousness, whereas awareness relates to the qualitative aspects of the functions mediated by the cortex, including cognitive abilities such as attention, sensory perception, explicit memory, language, the execution of tasks, temporal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physik
''Physik'' is a fantasy novel by Angie Sage. It is the third book in the seven-book ''Septimus Heap'' series. The story focuses primarily on the 500-year-old spirit of Queen Etheldredda, who attempts to use Septimus Heap to attain immortality. Synopsis The book begins with Silas Heap and Gringe accidentally releasing the spirit of Queen Etheldredda - while Unsealing a room for Silas's Counter- Feet Colony - from a painting that she had been trapped in for 510 years. Her release also releases her pet Aie-Aie, which causes a Sickness by biting people. Once released, she drowns Septimus Heap, only to save him for blackmail. She sends Septimus to meet her son Marcellus Pye who drank an incomplete potion of immortality. Marcellus uses a magical mirror to send Septimus back in time to learn Physik from a younger version of Marcellus, in an attempt to complete the potion. Marcia finds a note from Septimus in Marcellus' book ''I Marcellus''. Jenna Heap and Nicko Heap enlist the help o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Gringe
This article catalogs the key characters from the books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. These include the books ''Magyk'', '' Flyte'', '' Physik'', ''Queste'', '' Syren'', '' Darke'', and Fyre. Some characters play a central role in all the books, while others are only central to the plot in one or two of the books. When reviewing the first book in the series, ''Magyk'', Sabina Qazi of Dawn.com described the characters as follows:These characters remind us of the different types of people around us. Sage separates the qualities that make us who we are and typecasts them into these roles. The good and the bad characteristics are accompanied by the dull and the intelligent, the silly with the mature and the unapproachable with the loving. But this doesn’t mean that her characters are not well-rounded people. They are, but by highlighting certain aspects of their personality, she makes it easy for the reader to think of real people in terms of these characters. Thus an evi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Heap
This article catalogs the key characters from the books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. These include the books ''Magyk'', '' Flyte'', '' Physik'', ''Queste'', '' Syren'', '' Darke'', and Fyre. Some characters play a central role in all the books, while others are only central to the plot in one or two of the books. When reviewing the first book in the series, ''Magyk'', Sabina Qazi of Dawn.com described the characters as follows:These characters remind us of the different types of people around us. Sage separates the qualities that make us who we are and typecasts them into these roles. The good and the bad characteristics are accompanied by the dull and the intelligent, the silly with the mature and the unapproachable with the loving. But this doesn’t mean that her characters are not well-rounded people. They are, but by highlighting certain aspects of their personality, she makes it easy for the reader to think of real people in terms of these characters. Thus an evi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
