Series
Circle of Light
Niel Hancock · 4 novels · 1977
Niel Hancock's Circle of Light is a four-book fantasy sequence -- Greyfax Grimwald, Faragon Fairingay, Calix Stay, and Squaring the Circle -- first published in 1977 as part of Hancock's larger Atlanton Earth universe, of which it is chronologically the last-occurring set. A 2004 Tor reprint marketed the books as young-adult fantasy for ages 8-12, despite carrying more advanced spiritual themes than that classification suggests.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Circle of Light at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1970s4
Shape
4 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:epic fantasyquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Greyfax Grimwalddarkest · most intense
- Faragon Fairingaybrightest · calmest