Jonathan Swift responded with an attack on the Irish judiciary almost unparalleled in its ferocity, his principal target being the "vile and profligate villain" William Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Also during these years, he began writing his masterpiece, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships", better known as "Gulliver's Travels". Much of the material reflects his political experiences of the preceding decade. For instance, the episode in which the giant Gulliver puts out the Lilliputian palace fire by urinating on it can be
The Fifth Sacred Thing never seen running water. A prequel, "Walking to Mercury" (), was released in 1997. A sequel, "City of Refuge" (), was released in 2016 following a Kickstarter campaign by the author. The Gate to Women's Country The Fifth Sacred Thing The Fifth Sacred Thing is a 1993 post-apocalyptic novel by Starhawk. The title refers to the classical elements of fire, earth, air, and water, plus the fifth element, spirit, accessible when one has balanced the other four. The novel describes a world set in the year 2048 after a catastrophe which has fractured the United States into several nations. The