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Once again I find myself drawn to the series of Myst. Its lore, its wonder and the shear, mind bending thought of how someone thought of this in the first place. The book opens in the sandy deserts and the life of a young Atrus, still a boy and far from the happenings of the first Myst game. After a loving, peaceful life in the desert presided over by his grandmother, Anna, a strange figure appears at their quiet desert home. A tall, pale man who claims to be Atrus's father, Gehn. After 14 years, he has come to take Atrus to the fabled city of his heritage,D'ni. After Atrus's first impression of his father he decides to descend into the earth with this man, leaving all hes known behind. Once in the great city all Atrus knows is replaced with the lost culture. The language, the alphabet even the day cycle. It is then that his father reveals the real purpose of bringing him here. He is to learn the Art of Writing, a powerful and incredible art of writing worlds(known as Ages) into existence! Amazed by this science, Atrus begins to learn his father's ways, "to become gods" as he says. But its all to soon the Atrus realizes that What his father knows is a corrupt and evil shadow of what the art is. Instead of writhing Ages that he envisions, he takes phrases he likes from ancient D'ni text and tacks them together, creating worlds that are unstable and doomed to destruction. The "Mad God" Gehn, is not what Atrus wanted him to be. So with the help of a girl named Cathrine, a local of one of Gehn's Ages, he plots to trap Gehn and rid the world of his disregard for what the Art stands for. Atrus, weather he knows it at the time or not, gets puled into a man vs. man conflict, centering on his problems with his father. While Gehn wants Atrus to rule by him as a god and rebuild the D'ni empire as an empire of 1,000 slave worlds, he is unsure of how it goes against what his grandmother had taught him. While he tries to understand his father and learn what he teaches, what he teaches is evil and soulless. When Atrus comes to the realization that bis father's knowledge is corrupt he attempts to fix what he has done, only to find that he was being used all along, a tool to save Gehn time. With Atrus's struggle comes the importance of his observations, and the way the Miller writes the scenes is spot on. You imagine it just as he draws it every few pages. His vision instilled on the whiteness of the page as if it were the window in a Linking Book. As with the other books in the series the point of view changes can be confusing at points, but overall it is an flawless crafted series. I completely recommend it to anyone who wants to swim among the stars or be lord of a thousand worlds.