Lisa Goldstein, praised by Orson Scott Card as being "the best writer in our field today, " brings us her most powerful work to date with The Alchemist's Door.In the waning days of the sixteenth century, English alchemist and astrologer John Dee flees to Prague, pursued by a terrifying demon. It is a time of strife and persecution, when darkness and chaos threaten to overcome the forces of light and reason. Dee seeks out Rabbi Judah Loew and assists him in creating a Golem, a magical man fashioned from clay. Together they begin a desperate search to find the fabled 36th Righteous Man, for ancient prophecies foretell that if the last righteous man dies, the world will end . . . and dark spirits will remake it in their own image.