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The Invisible College by Jeff Wheeler

The Invisible College may be the rulers of the empire of Man
which shares unhappily this World with a version of the Aesir
who are a race of cold loving non-human people ruled by the
Erl-King. In the distant past they raised humanity by sharing
their language and arts.
The Humans did something to offend them and now
humans are regarded as pests to be wiped out but with magic
and language they are hard to get rid of especially as the
Aesir are prone to mult-hundred year rest periods from which
they emerge with the task of elimination of humans on their
mind.
We learn from the first chapter of their capability for taking
over moribund humans.
Then we are introduced to a professor of Elocution whose
father invented a system of physical attention to the organs
of speech. He is a genius of a sorcerer and a kind man.
He falls in love with one of his students a deaf girl with her
own very high intellect who has learned to speak and hopes
at the beginning of the story to enter Society but she falls
in love with the kindly professor. This is an important
element of this story.

I found this long story, and it is only the beginning volume of
a series, at the SFPL-Main, a paperback of 396 pages plus
some notes sold at $19.95 published by 47North, ,a brand
of Amazon. --2024.

The story was engrossing and suspenseful but i do
not think it is ideal in its construction.

I do not think I will follow this series with the obvious
link from the end of this part of the story. Aesir has a different
meaning in the mythology of this world and i resent it
being attached to an Elf-like creation of Wheeler and
Invisible College has been used in stories quire often.

bliss
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