Series Vergil Magus Publication date 2005 ISBN 978-0-9548277-1-7 Preceded by Vergil in Averno | Publisher Rose Press Pages 285 Originally published 2005 Page count 285 Country United States of America | |
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book Similar Vergil in Averno, The Phoenix and the M, Or All the Seas with Oysters, Limekiller!, Rogue Dragon | ||
The Scarlet Fig: or, Slowly through a Land of Stone, is a fantasy novel written by American writer Avram Davidson, edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells, published in hardcover by Rose Press in 2005. An ebook edition was published by Prologue Press in August 2012.
It is the third and final novel of the author's Vergil Magus sequence, following The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969) and Vergil in Averno (1987). It follows Vergil's adventures in an alternate ancient Mediterranean world where harpies, basilisks, and satyrs co-exist with Rome, Carthage, and the Punic Wars.
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