with Peter StraubWorld Fantasy (nominee)JackSawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey -an exalting, terrifying quest for the Talisman. Only the Talisman cansave his dying mother and defeat the enemy who is out to destroy them.But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across thebreadth of the United States, but through the wondrous and menacingTerritories as well.The Territories lie as firmly in theimagination as Atlantis or Oz; they are as real as every reader's ownvision of that parallel world which can only be evoked in the mind'smysterious eye. In the Territories Jack finds a world little removed