The Merlin Effect
core novel 1994 Heartlight Saga
Record
| First published | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.84 (1,145 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399226892 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Kate Gordon spends the summer in Baja California with her father Jim, a historian who studies Merlin. He believes a sunken Spanish galleon, the Resurreccion, holds the Horn of Merlin, a shell-shaped drinking horn that once granted a kind of immortality and was lost through Merlin's own pride. A huge whirlpool blocks any approach to the wreck. During a storm Kate is pulled into the whirlpool and finds herself in an undersea world full of dangerous creatures, where she must keep her free will in order to save her father and return the horn to where it belongs.
Where it sits
- Universe: Heartlight Saga
- Series: The Heartlight Saga core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. A. Barron
Notes
- From the series record (The Heartlight Saga): Three adventures of Kate Gordon, from a distant galaxy to the redwoods of five centuries ago to the sea floor.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Heartlight Saga: position 3 of 3: previous The Ancient One (1992)
Sources
- T. A. Barron: The Heartlight Saga
- Penguin Random House: The Heartlight Saga
- AbeBooks listing: Philomel, 1994
- Kirkus Reviews: The Merlin Effect
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