The Shiny Narrow Grin by Jane Gaskell6/20/2023 As things fall apart, Sex and sorcery abound, and Mad Scientists lurk garishly, but the princess eventually reaches home again. The non-Atlantean Princess Cija is involved, via forced marriage, in complex conflicts between northern forces and the quasihuman dwellers of the Island state. King's Daughter ( 1958) is set in ancient Atlantis, where a cache of even more ancient nerve gas is discovered the book is remotely connected, through a shared character, with the Cija sequence of Atlantis tales – The Serpent ( 1963 vt 2vols The Serpent 1975 and The Dragon 1975), Atlan ( 1965), The City ( 1966) and Some Summer Lands ( 1977). Working name of Jane Gaskell Lynch (1941- ), UK author whose several books of genre interest include her first, Strange Evil ( 1957), written when she was fourteen it features fairies from another world, claustrophobic conflicts in that world, and an aura of Gothic pubescence throughout.
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