“Their quest will carry them on an epic journey through all five Dominions, from the barbaric, glittering city of Yzordderrex to the haunted peaks of the Jokalaylau mountains, from the hallowed walls of Patashoqua to the very border of the greatest mystery of all: the First Dominion, on the other side of which lies the Holy City of the Unbeheld, where either their highest hopes or deepest fears will be realized…” To quote the blurb: “United in a desperate search for a universal mystery, all three discover that the truth lies in a place as mysterious as the face of God and as secret as the human soul. Over the course of the tome we follow the stories of three characters: Gentle, more prosaically known as John Furie Zacharias, a master forger Pie O’ Pah, an assassin who has crossed over from one of the other Dominions, and who not only deals out death but also love and Judith Odell, a beautiful woman who finds herself the object of three men’s desire. Earth, however, has been sundered from the other four, and the time is now at hand when it can be reunited with the others, an event which only happens once every two hundred years.
Earth is one of five Dominions, which together form the Imajica. Imajica consists of two books: volume one, Fifth Dimension, and volume two, The Reconciliation.
If ever proof were needed that there are some authors who rise above the general morass of verbiage through the sheer breadth and range of a creativity so stellar that it’s a wonder to realise that it’s contained within the braincage of a human head, then Barker is the man. I read this before reading his Weaveworld, which comes a close second in the list of Barker’s books that have made the most impact on me. Or, to be more specific, his magnum opus, Imajica. Carrying on from yesterday’s blog on the importance of the imagination and, as another in the series of essays discussing those books/films/ideas that have influenced me the most, I turn to perhaps THE biggest influence of all on me – Clive Barker.
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