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Including The Pilgrim, Shadow and World''s End, the Pendulum Trilogy is a visionary work of imaginative fantasy from one of genre fiction''s most exciting new voices.In Levaal, the world between worlds, a dark age has come. The gods struggle to contain eight terrible dragons, restless in their sky prisons, while Vous, the people''s ''friend and lord'', descends into madness.When a small red door appears in a graffiti-clad train bridge, journalist Eric Albright and his friend, the homeless drunk Stuart Case, give no thought to what may be on the other side.Now they will discover why some doors should not be opened . . .

Eric Albright, a twenty-six-year-old unemployed journalist, and Stuart Casey, a homeless old drunk, fall through a door in a graffiti-covered wall into the strange world of Levall, where a mountain-sized dragon with the powers of a god lies sleeping beneath a great white castle. Here they are the otherworlders, Pilgrims, and their lives are never going to be the same again.In the castle the sinister Lord Vous rules with an iron fist as the Project, designed to effect his transformation into an immortal spirit, nears completion. But Vous'' growing madness is close to consuming him, as is his fear of the imaginary being named ''Shadow''. And the arrival of the otherworlders in Levall is about to lend substance to that fear.No one has ever seen what lies beyond the impossibly vast Wall that divides Levall, but the Pilgrims possess powers strong enough to break it down. If they do, what will enter from the other side?Will Elliott''s brilliantly subversive and creative imagination twists the conventions of the genre to create an unforgettable alternate-world fantasy.

The second book in the Pendulum Trilogy, a visionary work of imaginative fantasy from one of genre fiction''s most exciting new voices.Eric and Case came to the world of Levaal through a door in an old railway arch, and it wasn''t long before they found themselves caught up in the war to control this strange land. But the Wall at World''s End, which once divided Levaal, has been brought down. Eric and his companions are forced to flee from the Tormentors, the dreadful creatures that poured through the breach, and there are rumours that one of the great dragons has escaped its sky prison. But there is even more to fear, for the transformation into a god of Vous, Friend and Lord of the world, is almost complete, and a being called Shadow who looks remarkably like Eric is wandering Levaal with great power but no purpose it yet understands. The end might be coming faster than anyone thinks.

Loyalty comes at a price . . .Vous has ascended to godhood and Eric and Aziel return to the castle to defeat the Arch Mage. The sky dragons offer Eric a throne, and objects of great power - but what do they want in return? Meanwhile, at World''s End, the haiyens have made contact. They say they have come to help, but is it possible they have another agenda?The climax of the Pendulum Trilogy, a visionary work of imaginative fantasy from one of genre fiction''s most exciting new voices.

In Will Elliott''s World''s End, the third volume in The Pendulum Trilogy, Levaal is facing the final battle in this age-old war between worlds and forces more ancient than any human, god, or dragon.When Eric Albright, a luckless London slacker, and his pal Stuart Casey went through a battered red door under a railway bridge, the last thing they expected to find was another world. There lay the strange, dark realm of Levaal, whose tyrant lord Vous has ascended to godhood. The great wall which has divided the land has been brought down, setting loose a horde of demonic Tormentors. In their sky prisons, the dragons are stirring, set to defy their slumbering creator and steal humanity''s world. Shilen, a dragon cloaked in human form, has convinced Eric and Aziel, Vous''s daughter, to help free the dragons from their sky-prison, or Earth will be destroyed. She promises great power, and safety for all Eric''s favoured people, but Shilen has an ulterior motive, for the dragons wish to control humankind completely.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.