Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von The Doomsman
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who like adventure after the fall of a civilization, ruined cities, secret machines, loyal friends and a hero who learns from old books. It suits anyone who enjoys a sword fight, a feud and a love story together.
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The Doomsman is a novel of the year 2015, ninety years after a sudden catastrophe called the Great Change has ended the old world. Van Tassel Sutphen wrote it as an adventure set among the ruins of New York, and it gives you a young hero, a feud, a lost science and a city that guards its secrets.
The land has fallen back into forest and marsh. Farmers live behind timber stockades, townsfolk huddle in walled towns, and the outlaw descendants of old convicts rule the empty city they call Doom. The book follows Constans, the son of a stockade lord, from a quiet beach to the streets of the forbidden city. Along the way it asks what a person owes to revenge, to friendship and to love.
You will meet a smiling enemy in velvet, a girl whose mother's message crosses the sea in a bottle, and a priest who serves a god made of wire and iron. You will also find books that still hold the old knowledge. The story begins on a bright May morning, with a boy, a pair of binoculars and a spear in the sand.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A boy, a book and a spearFree
- 2The man in velvet marks his prey
- 3The peddler and the Rat's-Hole
- 4An apprentice in the tannery
- 5Three friends in the ruined library
- 6A letter in a bottle
- 7The sisters and the hedge of arrows
- 8The Shining One in the machine hall
- 9Arcadia House and the white signal
- 10Doom's last night
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A boy, a book and a spear
The story opens on a yellow beach where Constans, son of Gavan of the Greenwood Keep, sits on a log and stares across the water. He is about seventeen, slender and thoughtful, and he looks at a dark mass on the horizon. In his hand are binoculars with one broken lens, and on his knee lies a child's history of the United States, with his name written across the top of a page.
He compares a picture of lower New York with the shadow on the sea and decides they are one and the same. The Forgotten City and Doom the Forbidden are the same place. Then a spear flashes down behind him and he barely escapes. A man on horseback is waiting further along the track.
The chase ends at a rotting bridge over the Swiftwater. Constans, safe on the far bank, shoots an arrow marked with a scarlet tanager feather into the rider's arm. The rider is calm and polite, dressed in claret velvet with a lace collar and an ostrich plume. He admires the feather, promises another meeting, and rides away.
Constans runs for the keep, where a bell is ringing. The Doomsmen have landed from the sea. The boy is proud of drawing the first blood, and ashamed too, for his sister Issa is missing and he knows of a secret gap in the palisade that he did not confess.
Before the story goes further, the book pauses to describe the world. A learned historian explains the Great Change and the long fall into barbarism. The Painted Men, the House People and the Doomsmen share the land. The Doomsmen are the heirs of freed convicts who seized New York, and an old renegade named Dom Gillian once taught them to fight as one band.
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Questions about The Doomsman
What is The Doomsman about?
It follows Constans, a stockade lord's son, in the year 2015, ninety years after a great catastrophe. He seeks revenge on an outlaw named Quinton Edge in the ruins of New York, and discovers old science that could rebuild the world.
Who is Quinton Edge?
He is a Doomsman, one of the outlaw rulers of ruined New York. Graceful, witty and ruthless, he cuts a notch in Constans's ear to mark him as his property, and he becomes the hero's great enemy.
What does Doom mean in the book?
Doom is the name the survivors give to the ruined city of New York. The Doomsmen, descendants of freed convicts, live there. It is also the word for the shadow of the old catastrophe that hangs over the land.
When was The Doomsman written and where is it set?
Van Tassel Sutphen wrote it in the early twentieth century. It is set in the year 2015, in the Hudson valley and the ruins of New York, ninety years after the Great Change.
What is the Shining One?
The Shining One is the god of the Doomsmen, worshipped in a temple built around an old power plant. Its glowing face and deadly chair are electrical devices, and an old priest tends them without fully understanding them.