Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cambridge to seek the help of Newton himself. Isobel is burned at the stake but in her dying moments, begs Jennet to devote her life to overturning the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. This is a huge rollercoaster of a novel as Jennet travels to America and witnesses the Salem witch trials; is abducted by Indians; begins an affair with Benjamin Franklin; travels back to England and finally meets the real Newton; is shipwrecked; then ends up back in America where her brother is now the Witchfinder Royal. In a great final showdown between old superstition and new science, Jennet decides to have herself accused of witchcraft in order to disprove its existence.

【著者简介】

詹姆斯·莫罗（James Morrow）美国作家,星云奖最佳短篇小说和最佳中篇小说奖得主,并两度摘得世界奇幻奖最佳长篇小说奖。

莫罗被公认为科幻界最独树一帜的作家,他敢于挑战宏大题材,从不惧怕打破常规,其作品注重剖析宗教、人文主义、无神论等话题,充满奇幻元 素。但和一般奇幻作家不同的是,莫罗为这些元素设定了合理的科学解释,从而在“科幻”与“奇幻”之间达到了微妙的平衡。

莫罗自称为一名“科学人文主义者”“迷惑的朝圣者”“启蒙运动之子”,目前已出版十部长篇小说、三部中篇小说及若干短篇故事集。他历时九年写出《最后的猎巫人》这部气势恢宏的历史小说。

◆作者曾获奖项

1988年 星云奖·最佳短篇小说奖

1991年 世界奇幻奖·最佳长篇小说奖

1992年 星云奖·最佳中长篇小说奖

1995年 世界奇幻奖·最佳长篇小说奖

2005年 乌托邦终身成就奖（Prix Utopia for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction）

2010年 西奥多·斯特金纪念奖（Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award）

【译者简介】

杨晨光,辽宁沈阳人,译作另有《被淹没与被拯救的》《再度觉醒》等。