The Ivory Cat

About the Book

The Egyptian gods (if they exist) are the many which is the One: innumerable aspects of a single unity living in a time-space in which all time is now and all space is here, and everything can be true at once.

Normally the gods don't meddle in human affairs, asking only that Cosmic Order be preserved. But now and then-

In a moment that was all moments, a simultaneity that in human terms would one day be known as circa 1333 BC, Bastet the cat-headed goddess (if she existed) looked with interest upon Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti and their children, upon a fishing boat bearing a numinous ivory cat, a fearful slave in Bubastis, an arrogant and unhappy princess in Mitanni, some venomous and ambitious plotters, a naive idealist or three, and a scatter of other human and feline players. She smiled a bland cosmic smile-

-and meddled.

About the Author

Grew up in Seattle, graduated from Reed College. Her first book, published in 1954 by Holt, was followed by twenty more, plus Listen and Learn with Phonics. Moved to England in ?64. When her books went OP, Sally took up judo and cats. Returned in ?87 to Santa Rosa, found her OP books selling on the Internet for obscene prices. Image Cascade has republished seven of them. New titles include The Outrageous Oriel, The Wayward Princess, The Delicate Pioneer, and The Haunted Schoolhouse.