Crossroads of Twilight: 10/12 (Wheel of Time, 10)

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Ghost stories are malleable. They suit the era in which they’re found. That’s why the appearances and motivations of ghosts change over the years to keep up with the belief in ghosts. I owe Robert Jordan so much. Without him, modern fantasy would be bereft of the expansive, deep worlds and the giant casts which I love so dearly. It's not often I can look at another author and say: that person paved my way. But such is exactly the case with Jordan." --Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings By the end of the year Saturn is deeply mired in the horizon mirk by the end of civil twilight, just about signalling the end of its 2021 apparition. a b c "The American Practical Navigator" (PDF). FlaterCo. p. 227. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2021 . Retrieved 15 September 2023. Jordan is able to take ... familiar elements and make them his own, in a powerful novel of wide and complex scope. Open religious and political conflicts add a gritty realism, while the cities and courts provide plenty of drama and splendor. Women have a stronger role than in Tolkien.... Each character in this large cast remains distinct.... Their adventures are varied, and exciting.... The Eye of the World stands alone as a fantasy epic." -- Locus

The most ambitious American fantasy saga [may] also be the finest. Rich in detail and his plot is rich in incident. Impressive work, and highly recommended.” — Booklist In the months of January or July, both astronomical dawn and astronomical dusk occurs at latitudes less than 48°50' North or South, because in the months of January or July the Sun’s declination is less than 23°10' from the Equator; Major cities that near astronomical twilight from nautical dusk to nautical dawn: Khabarovsk (48°29'0"N), Dnipro (48°27'0"N), Victoria (48°25'42"N), Saguenay (48°25′0"N), Brest (48°23′26"N), Thunder Bay (48°22′56″N), Vienna (48°12′30″N), Bratislava (48°8′38″N), Munich (48°8'0"N), Seattle (47°36’35"N)

Are you certain about the Windfinders who were caught? I’ve heard talk about cutting off hands, or feet.” Mat swallowed a sour taste. He had seen men die, had killed men with his own hands. The Light send him mercy, he had killed a woman, once! Not even the darkest of those other men’s memories burned so hot as that, and a few of those were dark enough to need drowning in wine when they floated to the surface. But the thought of deliberately cutting off somebody’s hands curdled his stomach. Still, Silky seemed to catch people’s attention. One story even sees people blaming Silky for a break-in at Belsay Hall in the 1920s! The End of Silky? K. M. Briggs notes that the tales of the Denton Hall Silky actually continued into the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1961: 512). She noted that a woman named Mrs Warner, a member of a Quaker family in Northumberland, continued the story for her. As the story went, Mrs Warner’s mother used to visit two old ladies who lived at Denton Hall when Mrs Warner was a girl. Naturally, she took the young Mrs Warner with her, and these visits occurred between 1887 and 1902. Jordan's world is rich in detail and his plot is rich in incident. Impressive work, and highly recommended." -- ALA Booklist The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.

Within the polar circles, twenty-four-hour daylight is encountered in summer, and in regions very close to the poles, twilight can last for weeks on the winter side of the equinoxes. Outside the polar circles, where the angular distance from the polar circle is less than the angle which defines twilight (see above), twilight can continue through local midnight near the summer solstice. The precise position of the polar circles, and the regions where twilight can continue through local midnight, varies slightly from year to year with Earth's axial tilt. The lowest latitudes at which the various twilights can continue through local midnight are approximately 60.561° (60°33′43″) for civil twilight, 54.561° (54°33′43″) for nautical twilight and 48.561° (48°33′43″) for astronomical twilight. [15] [16] Lowest Latitude Twilight Observed at Local Midnight by MonthSo perhaps Silky really is a sprite, and we misinterpret her as a ghost in an era more disposed towards the supernatural than fairies. With Crossroads of Twilight, Jordan's gargantuan fantasy sequence The Wheel of Time reaches its tenth huge volume and hits some of the consequences of its own sheer scale. Jordan is running so many story lines--the struggle with the covert agents of evil, the creation of a male magic that is not polluted, the war with magic-using dragon-riders from across the sea, the adventures of a travelling circus--that he has to spend almost all of this book just keeping us in touch with the movements of his characters and how they are getting on.

Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul. In Arctic and Antarctic latitudes in wintertime, the polar night only rarely produces complete darkness for 24 hours each day. This can occur only at locations within 5.5 degrees of latitude of the Pole, and there only on dates close to the winter solstice. At all other latitudes and dates, the polar night includes a daily period of twilight, when the Sun is not far below the horizon. Around winter solstice, when the solar declination changes slowly, complete darkness lasts several weeks at the Pole itself, e.g., from May 11 to July 31 at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. [a] North Pole has the experience of this from November 13 to January 29. They don’t have enough ships,” he muttered. The Seanchan had even more in Tanchico than had come here, but the losses here were sufficient to make the difference.And this “Seinfeld” of the Wheel of Time series—the book about nothing (according to its harshest critics, that is)—comes to an end with a climax worthy of its reputation: Rand learns the Daughter of the Nine of the Moons—Mat’s complicated bride-to-be, Tuon, has submitted to our hero’s eager desire to meet with her and then, sitting quietly, he smiles for the first time since he can remember. Update this section! This richly detailed fantasy presents fully realized, complex adventure. Recommended.” — Library Journal Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface. The word twilight can also refer to the periods of time when this illumination occurs. [2] Twilight is the time period between dawn and sunrise, or between sunset and dusk. Morning twilight: astronomical, nautical, and civil stages at dawn. The apparent disk of the Sun is shown to scale. [1] Evening twilight: civil, nautical, and astronomical stages at dusk. The solar disk is shown to scale. Robert Jordan was a giant of fiction whose words helped a whole generation of fantasy writers, including myself, find our true voices. I thanked him then, but I didn't thank him enough." --Peter V. Brett, internationally bestselling author of The Demon Cycle series