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Manna from Heaven

 
Idioms: manna from heaven

An unexpected aid, advantage, or assistance, as in After all the criticism in the media, that favorable evaluation was like manna from heaven. This expression alludes to the food (manna) that miraculously appears to feed the Israelites on their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land (Exodus 16:15).


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Food that God gave miraculously to the Israelites in the Exodus, after the food they had brought with them out of Egypt had run out. In the Book of Exodus, the Israelites found it one morning after the dew had evaporated: “Upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.”

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the exodus
  Synonyms: miraculous food, manna

Meaning #2: a sudden happening that brings very good fortune
  Synonyms: boom, bonanza


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Manna from Heaven  
Manna from heaven.jpg
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Roger Zelazny
Cover artist Bob Eggleton
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction and Fantasy short stories
Publisher Wildside Press
Publication date 2003
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 192 pp
ISBN 0809530953
OCLC 55141594
For information about manna, see manna.

Manna from Heaven is a book that contains a collection of short stories that were written by fantasy and science fiction author Roger Zelazny. It was published in 2003 by Zelazny's estate eight years after Zelazny's death.

Contents

Manna from Heaven contains 22 stories. The first 16 are stand-alone stories, while the last 6 tie into Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series.

  • "Godson"
  • "Mana from Heaven"
  • "Corrida"
  • "Prince of the Powers of This World"
  • "The Furies"
  • "The Deadliest Game"
  • "Kalifriki of the Thread"
  • "Come Back to the Killing Ground Alice, My Love"
  • "Lady of Steel"
  • "Come to Me Not in Winter's White"
  • "The New Pleasure"
  • "The House of the Hanged Man"
  • "Epithalamium"
  • "The Last Inn on the Road"
  • "Stowaway"
  • "Angel, Dark Angel"
  • "Prologue from the Trumps of Doom"
    Merlin walks the Logrus.
  • "The Salesman's Tale"
    Luke flees the Pattern and takes refuge in the Crystal Cave. He and Vialle learn that the redistribution of the spikards will force a confrontation involving Amber and the Courts of Chaos.
  • "Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains"
    Corwin flees the Courts of Chaos through a part of Shadow called the Dancing Mountains. He eavesdrops on a game of chess and learns he has an appointment at the Hall of Mirrors in Amber Castle.
  • "The Shroudling and the Guisel"
    Merlin's childhood sweetheart Rhanda appears. She warns him of an unknown sorcerer who seeks the throne of the Courts of Chaos and has sent a beast called a guisel to kill him.
  • "Coming to a Cord"
    Frakir escapes from Brand's bedpost where Merlin left her, locates Flora, and eventually asks Luke's help in returning to Merlin.
  • "Hall of Mirrors"
    Corwin discovers that traveling through the Dancing Mountains made him the subject of an unusual spell. He returns to Amber Castle and meets Luke, and they enter the Hall of Mirrors and are forced to duel.

 
 

 

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