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Is part of The Well of Echoes Quartet Ian Irvine , 2001- series - author novel (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Scrutator
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'The node has failed, rendering humanity's battle clankers and the Aachim's constructs useless. The battle has been lost. Now hordes of alien lyrinx are swarming out of the tar pits of Snizort, intending to fall upon the survivors and destroy them to the last man. Tiaan, crippled and unable to walk, is held prisoner by a vengeful Vithis, who is determined to extract her geomantic secrets from her at any cost. For his failings, Nish has been cast out and branded a traitor, while Irisis, accused of high treason, has been forced to flee for her life. The fate of humanity is dependent on the survival of one wily old man, Scrutator Xervish Flydd. But Flydd has been blamed for the defeat at Snizort. His enemy, vicious Chief Scrutator Ghorr, has expelled him from the Council and stripped him of all rights. Now Flydd is condemned to die a brutish death as a slave, hauling ironclad clankers out of the battlefield mire until his heart bursts under the strain'. Source: bookseller's website.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2003 .
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      Extent: 690p.
      Description: illus., maps.
      ISBN: 067091228X
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Viking ,
      2003 .
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      Extent: 691p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 6 September 2004
      ISBN: 9780140292343
Alternative title: Die Sucherin
Language: German
    • Bergisch Gladbach,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Bastei Lübbe ,
      2010 .
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      Extent: 859p.p.
      ISBN: 9783404285396

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Works about this Work

Energy from the Source of Suspense Van Ikin , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 January-1 February 2004; (p. 16)

— Review of Scrutator Ian Irvine , 2003 single work novel
Desperate Race for Survival Heats Up Tim Lloyd , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 November 2003; (p. 13)

— Review of Scrutator Ian Irvine , 2003 single work novel
Desperate Race for Survival Heats Up Tim Lloyd , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 November 2003; (p. 13)

— Review of Scrutator Ian Irvine , 2003 single work novel
Energy from the Source of Suspense Van Ikin , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 January-1 February 2004; (p. 16)

— Review of Scrutator Ian Irvine , 2003 single work novel
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