Interesting links

Here are some interesting links for Katherine Neville fans:

Other Katherine Neville sites:

• Katherine Neville's official home page
• Ballantine Books' Magic Circle site Ballantine has recently added a lot of new things to this site, including a longer biography, an interview with Katherine Neville, an online forum, and her research notes for The Magic Circle.
• A new site about The Eight, from Germany

Related sites:

• The publisher's home page (Random House) By the way, take a look at the new trade paperback edition of The Eight; I just saw it at Borders and it's really nice. I don't think it contains any new material, though.
• Ballantine Books home page
• Bookworms Anonymous
• The Quill Pen Home Page A great site! They have decided to make The Eight their "book of the month" (August 1997). Includes a very good, brief review of The Eight.
• The Great Books Search This is a site where you can vote for your favorite books. The Eight is now on their "Top Books" list!
• Homespun Book Lists At this site, you can send in a list of your favorite books. Several people have The Eight on their lists.
• Amazon.comYou can order Katherine Neville's books at this site. It also includes readers' comments.

Reviews of Katherine Neville's books

• My very brief review of The Eight This is very short; it's even shorter than the annotation on this page. I wrote this a long time ago, before I even thought of doing a Web site.
• Another very brief review of The Eight This one is even shorter than my review.
• A longer review of The Eight by Gary Gygax.
• Beth Dora Reisberg's review of The Magic Circle

Here are some sites for people interested in the background of The Eight:

Algeria

• ArabNet's Algeria page
• History of Algeria
• Early history This is not very long, but it mentions the Phoenicians and Carthage.
• French colonization When you read this, you'll see that Mireille was very unusual, in treating Shahin as a friend instead of an "inferior".
• Algeria, 1962-1995
• Map of Algeria Unfortunately, this is not a very detailed map, but it does show some of the places mentioned in The Eight.
• Window on Algeria
• More links to Algeria Includes some beautiful pictures of Kabylia.
• Tamazgha, the Amazigh (Berber) land A great site about the Berber people of North Africa.
• Amazigh Heritage Another site about the Berber people.
• More information about the Berbers
• Tassili n'Ajjer
• Tassili n'Ajjer. As wild as it gets

Chess

• Internet Chess Library
• Steve Pribut's Chess Page
• Origins of Chess
• Chess books This site mentions The Eight as well as several other books about chess, both fiction and nonfiction. It's a good place to look for other books you might like if you liked The Eight.
• Site about chess being the game "of the goddess"
• The origins of chess
• Discussion of the family of chess games. One theory says chess came to Europe through Charlemagne; another says the Knights of the Cross obtained it through the Arabs.
• Enochian, Rosicrucian or Elemental Chess
• Another site on this topic
• Article on Knight's Tours which says there are no magic tours, but there are 140 semimagic tours
• Article on the software that solved the magic Knight's Tour problem
• An interesting article on Knight's Tours
• Interactive online chess
• Knight's Tours

Freemasonry

• History of Freemasonry The ideas expressed on this page are probably different from Katherine Neville's, but it gives interesting background information.
• History of the Freemasons

Rosicrucians

• History of the Rosicrucians
• Rosicrucian Chess

Alchemy

• The Alchemy Web Site

The French Revolution

• French Revolution Web Site
• The French Revolution Home Page
• Jacques-Louis David
• An article on The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
• Books about Talleyrand This is the most complete list of books about Talleyrand that I've ever seen; most of the site is in French.
• Charlotte Corday This is part of a larger site about Corday and Marie-Antoinette.

The Pyrenees

• The French Pyrenees I couldn't find very much about the history of this area.

Many thanks to Christa Tutwiler (christa62@hotmail.com) for several of these links, especially the sites on chess, the Freemasons, and the Rosicrucians. Thanks to Steve Snyder for the articles on Knight's Tours.

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