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The Book of Atrus

by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller, David Wingrove · 1995 · 422 pages

Book 1 of the Myst series

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Based on the best-selling CD-ROM game, a fantasy novel fills out the lives of the game's characters, tracing the strange apprenticeship of Atrus to his father, Gehn, who wields the power to create worlds.

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Genre
fantasyscience fictionadventureepic fantasydystopia
Themes
games
Setting
1990s
Audience
young adultadult
Length
long · 422 pages

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