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All 6 books of the Rune series by Mark Anthony
4 books of the Sundered series by Michelle West
The Children of Hurin
Winter Rose by Patricia Mckillup
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem
:All 6 books of the Rune series by Mark Anthony
4 books of the Sundered series by Michelle West
The Children of Hurin
Winter Rose by Patricia Mckillup
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem
Picked up following Masterworks:
Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword
" " - Three Hearts & Three Lions
AND...the latest Masterwork entry # 50 The Mark Of The Beast and Other Fantastical Tales - Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was a major figure of English literature, who used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling, one of England's greatest writers, was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882. He began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent, such as 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes', and his most famous weird story is 'The Mark of the Beast' (1890), about a man cursed to transform into a were-leopard. This Masterwork, edited by Stephen Jones, Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist, collects all Kipling's weird fiction for the first time; the stories range from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror
Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword
" " - Three Hearts & Three Lions
AND...the latest Masterwork entry # 50 The Mark Of The Beast and Other Fantastical Tales - Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was a major figure of English literature, who used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling, one of England's greatest writers, was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882. He began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent, such as 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes', and his most famous weird story is 'The Mark of the Beast' (1890), about a man cursed to transform into a were-leopard. This Masterwork, edited by Stephen Jones, Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist, collects all Kipling's weird fiction for the first time; the stories range from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror
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K. Riehl
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After 15 years of searching I finally got one my all time favorite books in first edition. I picked up Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. It has the classic Hannes Bok cover.
It feels strange to actually own it as I never expected to be able to afford it. I love Ebay. Here it is for those who haven't seen it before.
I'm also including the companion title I picked up in the same sale. It also has a Bok cover.
It feels strange to actually own it as I never expected to be able to afford it. I love Ebay. Here it is for those who haven't seen it before.
I'm also including the companion title I picked up in the same sale. It also has a Bok cover.
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Who's Wee Dug
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So it is happy days then,it is great when something like that comes together cherish and enjoy.
As part of my focus on purchasing the entire Fantasy Masterwork series today I picked up:
#41 Grendel - 1971 classic by John Gardner
Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages.
#25 Voice Of Our Shadow - Johnathon Carroll
For Joe Lennox, successful young writer, Vienna provides a refuge from the tragedy of his brother's death, until he starts up a friendship with the eccentric India Tate and her magician husband Paul. Gradually Joe falls in love with India, but Paul finds out - before he suddenly drops dread. And now Joe has two deaths on his conscience and another voice calling from beyond the grave ...
#25 Land Of Laughs - Johnathon Carroll
For schoolteacher Thomas Abbey there was no writer to equal Marshall France, a legendary author of children's books who hid himself away in the small town of Galen and died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four. Tom and his girlfriend Saxony, wanting to write France's biography, arrive in Galen, where they discover the writer's fiercely protective daughter Anna is waiting for them. Before long, they realise that this idyllic little town and its inhabitants - both human and animal - are not quite what they seem: France's magic has spread beyond the printed page ...
#30 Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe - Micahel Moorcock (3 stories)
Prince Corum is the last of the Vadhagh, his family and people brutally slain by the Mabden. Vowing to wreak vengeance on the killers, Corum sets out on his terrible quest only to fall in love with a beautiful Mabden woman, and to confront the fury of the Lords of Chaos. For they fear that he is the hero who could tip the balance in their cataclysmic war with the forces of Law and free his world from Chaos's vicious grip. His epic struggle against them and his ultimate victory is only bought at a considerable price. Moorcock's evocation of a rich, dark world, a time of magic, phantasms, cities in the sky, oceans of light and wild flying beasts of bronze is one of the pinnacles of modern imaginative literature.
#33 House on the Borderland & Other stories - Willliam Hope Hodgson (4 main novels)
The House on the Borderland and the other novels by William Hope Hodgson are among the indispensable works of gloomy cosmic fantasy--this is in spite of the utter mawkishness of his writing about the emotions and his occasional ill-judged experiments with an archaic style. The hero of The House on the Borderland finds himself besieged in his remote house by monstrous pig-like humanoids and carried forward, dizzyingly, to unimaginably distant eras when dying stars are drawn in on each other and dead gods hideously walk. The world of "The Night Land" is one of chivalric adventure in which the hero quests after the girl of his dreams across a literally sunless landscape full of monsters described through hints and indirection but nonetheless impressively deadly. Similar monsters beset the sailors of "The Boats of the Glen Carreg" and "The Ghost Pirates"--a case can be made that Hodgson is even more terrifying when he makes a concession to standard realism, but the two maritime adventure stories lack the sheer sense of Time's Abyss that he does so well. Despite the occasional longeurs of "The Night Land"--well characterised by China Mieville in his introduction as ones which would make any less important book unreadable--this is an impressive collection of fantastic classics.
#3 The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
In 1922, Eddison published his first novel The Worm Ourobouros, a novel of daring adventures and dastardly treachery set in a never-never-land on Mercury; his four novels channelled the evolution of genre fantasy, not least by being much admired by both Lewis and Tolkien. The gallant and noble lords of Demonland are threatened by an assortment of villains--the various kings Gorice of Witchland and the thuggish generals of their court, aided and abetted by the compulsively treacherous Lord Gro; Gro is one of the more fascinating villains in fantasy: charismatic, intelligent, sensitive and flawed. Eddison was obsessed with the poetry and prose of the Elizabethan era--not trusting his own poetic skills, he simply has his characters quote sonnets and epigrams and ballads, some of them famous; when his characters deliver heroic defiance or counsel betrayal, it is always in a rhetoric that for once sounds like what the characters of a heroic age might say. What makes The Worm Ourobouros a classic fantasy is, quite simply, that it has some of the best battle scenes, some of the more terrifying scenes of magic and some of the most tender love scenes that the genre has ever achieved--it is nice to have it back again.
#21 Mistress of Mistresses - E. R. Eddison
MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES was the first published novel in E.R. Eddison's celebrated Zimiamvian trilogy. Like Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Zimiamvia is a world which mirrors our own - but passions run stronger there, and life, love and treachery are epic in their intensity. And magic, of course, is a reality. Mezentius had ruled the Three Kingdoms with a firm hand, but his legitimate heir is a weakling, frightened of the power of his half-brother, Duke Barganax, and of that of the terrifying Horius Parry, Vicar of Rerek. As Parry and Barganax manoeuvre, intrigue and plot, it is clear that the new king isn't long for the world. The key to the control of the Three Kingdoms lies with Lessingham, Parry's cousin, the only man both sides can trust. But then Parry decides that Lessingham must die. As heroes and villains clash, an even darker game is being played - for the Lady Fiorinda is testing her own powers to decide the fates of men...MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES is as powerful, exciting and intriguing today as when it was first published.
That should keep me busy for a few days at least...
#41 Grendel - 1971 classic by John Gardner
Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages.
#25 Voice Of Our Shadow - Johnathon Carroll
For Joe Lennox, successful young writer, Vienna provides a refuge from the tragedy of his brother's death, until he starts up a friendship with the eccentric India Tate and her magician husband Paul. Gradually Joe falls in love with India, but Paul finds out - before he suddenly drops dread. And now Joe has two deaths on his conscience and another voice calling from beyond the grave ...
#25 Land Of Laughs - Johnathon Carroll
For schoolteacher Thomas Abbey there was no writer to equal Marshall France, a legendary author of children's books who hid himself away in the small town of Galen and died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four. Tom and his girlfriend Saxony, wanting to write France's biography, arrive in Galen, where they discover the writer's fiercely protective daughter Anna is waiting for them. Before long, they realise that this idyllic little town and its inhabitants - both human and animal - are not quite what they seem: France's magic has spread beyond the printed page ...
#30 Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe - Micahel Moorcock (3 stories)
Prince Corum is the last of the Vadhagh, his family and people brutally slain by the Mabden. Vowing to wreak vengeance on the killers, Corum sets out on his terrible quest only to fall in love with a beautiful Mabden woman, and to confront the fury of the Lords of Chaos. For they fear that he is the hero who could tip the balance in their cataclysmic war with the forces of Law and free his world from Chaos's vicious grip. His epic struggle against them and his ultimate victory is only bought at a considerable price. Moorcock's evocation of a rich, dark world, a time of magic, phantasms, cities in the sky, oceans of light and wild flying beasts of bronze is one of the pinnacles of modern imaginative literature.
#33 House on the Borderland & Other stories - Willliam Hope Hodgson (4 main novels)
The House on the Borderland and the other novels by William Hope Hodgson are among the indispensable works of gloomy cosmic fantasy--this is in spite of the utter mawkishness of his writing about the emotions and his occasional ill-judged experiments with an archaic style. The hero of The House on the Borderland finds himself besieged in his remote house by monstrous pig-like humanoids and carried forward, dizzyingly, to unimaginably distant eras when dying stars are drawn in on each other and dead gods hideously walk. The world of "The Night Land" is one of chivalric adventure in which the hero quests after the girl of his dreams across a literally sunless landscape full of monsters described through hints and indirection but nonetheless impressively deadly. Similar monsters beset the sailors of "The Boats of the Glen Carreg" and "The Ghost Pirates"--a case can be made that Hodgson is even more terrifying when he makes a concession to standard realism, but the two maritime adventure stories lack the sheer sense of Time's Abyss that he does so well. Despite the occasional longeurs of "The Night Land"--well characterised by China Mieville in his introduction as ones which would make any less important book unreadable--this is an impressive collection of fantastic classics.
#3 The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
In 1922, Eddison published his first novel The Worm Ourobouros, a novel of daring adventures and dastardly treachery set in a never-never-land on Mercury; his four novels channelled the evolution of genre fantasy, not least by being much admired by both Lewis and Tolkien. The gallant and noble lords of Demonland are threatened by an assortment of villains--the various kings Gorice of Witchland and the thuggish generals of their court, aided and abetted by the compulsively treacherous Lord Gro; Gro is one of the more fascinating villains in fantasy: charismatic, intelligent, sensitive and flawed. Eddison was obsessed with the poetry and prose of the Elizabethan era--not trusting his own poetic skills, he simply has his characters quote sonnets and epigrams and ballads, some of them famous; when his characters deliver heroic defiance or counsel betrayal, it is always in a rhetoric that for once sounds like what the characters of a heroic age might say. What makes The Worm Ourobouros a classic fantasy is, quite simply, that it has some of the best battle scenes, some of the more terrifying scenes of magic and some of the most tender love scenes that the genre has ever achieved--it is nice to have it back again.
#21 Mistress of Mistresses - E. R. Eddison
MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES was the first published novel in E.R. Eddison's celebrated Zimiamvian trilogy. Like Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Zimiamvia is a world which mirrors our own - but passions run stronger there, and life, love and treachery are epic in their intensity. And magic, of course, is a reality. Mezentius had ruled the Three Kingdoms with a firm hand, but his legitimate heir is a weakling, frightened of the power of his half-brother, Duke Barganax, and of that of the terrifying Horius Parry, Vicar of Rerek. As Parry and Barganax manoeuvre, intrigue and plot, it is clear that the new king isn't long for the world. The key to the control of the Three Kingdoms lies with Lessingham, Parry's cousin, the only man both sides can trust. But then Parry decides that Lessingham must die. As heroes and villains clash, an even darker game is being played - for the Lady Fiorinda is testing her own powers to decide the fates of men...MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES is as powerful, exciting and intriguing today as when it was first published.
That should keep me busy for a few days at least...
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Just received from amazon.com over the weekend...
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding - Jim Butcher & Others
Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb (3 books)
House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen) - Steven Erikson (Haven't read Malazan yet, just collecting them at the moment)
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding - Jim Butcher & Others
Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb (3 books)
House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen) - Steven Erikson (Haven't read Malazan yet, just collecting them at the moment)
Nesacat
The Cat
*Imagine the Cat doing a happy dance*
Bought at a booksale of all places ... hardback edition of Children of Hurin illustrated by Alan Lee for an awesomely ludicrous price. I checked three times to make sure I was seeing it right.
Bought at a booksale of all places ... hardback edition of Children of Hurin illustrated by Alan Lee for an awesomely ludicrous price. I checked three times to make sure I was seeing it right.
Who's Wee Dug
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I had a day off today and paid a visit to Fantasy Centre in London have not been there in quite awhile picked up Dead Witch Walking & The Good the bad and the Undead by Kim Harrison not my usual type but went on to her website read the reviews and some excerpts, also wanted the ones with the USA covers, neat artwork will look for the rest now.
Taltos
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Got my order ... about week earlier than expected :
Richard K Morgan Broken Angels
Richard K Morgan Woken Furies
Jim Butcher Fool Moon
Justina Robson Keeping It Real
Alfred Bester The Stars, My Destination
Jack Vance Suldrun's Garden
M. John Harrison The Centauri Device
:Richard K Morgan Broken Angels
Richard K Morgan Woken Furies
Jim Butcher Fool Moon
Justina Robson Keeping It Real
Alfred Bester The Stars, My Destination
Jack Vance Suldrun's Garden
M. John Harrison The Centauri Device
Picked up:
Beauty - Sherri S Teper - Part of the Masterwork series.
The latest from the talented Tepper is many things: a fantasy of manners, a dystopian science fiction tale, a time-travel story and an eco-morality play. Still more impressive is the evolution of the narrator and title character, whom we follow for a century of life (ages 16 to 116) as she matures gradually and subtly from a pouty, slightly spoiled daughter of a duke to a wise old woman. Retelling various fairy tales, Tepper strips away each story's gloss. Sleeping Beauty's sleep continues endlessly, prince notwithstanding; Cinderella is as heartless and nasty to her ugly stepsisters as they are to her; and Snow White is a blond bimbo, while the dwarfs are a querulous collection of Basque brothers. Tepper manages to maintain interest, style and theme throughout these disparate elements, and she consistently sniffs out the ugly (e.g., the storybook land of Chinanga, which has all the facets of a fairyland but is an extremely boring place to live). Despite an often depressing worldview, this is a beautiful book from one of the genre's best writers
Watchmen - Graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons. A classic of the ages I'm looking forward to finally reading!!
And on recommendations by Jay....
Requiem - Graham Joyce
After the tragic death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to contemporary Jerusalem in search of a lost love and a reason to keep on living. He finds a city haunted by ghosts and djinn, divided by warring religious factions, and hiding ancient secrets that draw him ever closer to a mysterious woman who just might be the restless spirit of Mary Magdalen.
The Facts Of Life - Graham Joyce - World Fantasy Award winner.
In this moving novel, Joyce traces the boyhood of Frank Vine, born into a loving and ramshackle family in the English countryside during World War II. The product of a brief liaison between an American GI and a local woman, Frank is marked with an extrasensory gift that he shares with his matriarchal grandmother and his emotionally unstable mother. Shortly after his birth, Frank's mother is deemed unfit to care for him, so his grandmother makes the executive decision that his care will be divided among his six aunts, each highly unconventional in her own right. During the next 10 years, Frank makes his home at a farm, a commune, and a makeshift mortuary, slowly finding his place in his eccentric but loving family. Joyce's emotional tale skirts sentimentality by presenting the family warts and all: each of the sisters is a complex and contradictory figure, and Joyce fully examines the consequences of the small feuds and squabbles that characterize a close-knit family. A beautifully written tale that entwines domestic drama with magic realism.
Beauty - Sherri S Teper - Part of the Masterwork series.
The latest from the talented Tepper is many things: a fantasy of manners, a dystopian science fiction tale, a time-travel story and an eco-morality play. Still more impressive is the evolution of the narrator and title character, whom we follow for a century of life (ages 16 to 116) as she matures gradually and subtly from a pouty, slightly spoiled daughter of a duke to a wise old woman. Retelling various fairy tales, Tepper strips away each story's gloss. Sleeping Beauty's sleep continues endlessly, prince notwithstanding; Cinderella is as heartless and nasty to her ugly stepsisters as they are to her; and Snow White is a blond bimbo, while the dwarfs are a querulous collection of Basque brothers. Tepper manages to maintain interest, style and theme throughout these disparate elements, and she consistently sniffs out the ugly (e.g., the storybook land of Chinanga, which has all the facets of a fairyland but is an extremely boring place to live). Despite an often depressing worldview, this is a beautiful book from one of the genre's best writers
Watchmen - Graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons. A classic of the ages I'm looking forward to finally reading!!
And on recommendations by Jay....
Requiem - Graham Joyce
After the tragic death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to contemporary Jerusalem in search of a lost love and a reason to keep on living. He finds a city haunted by ghosts and djinn, divided by warring religious factions, and hiding ancient secrets that draw him ever closer to a mysterious woman who just might be the restless spirit of Mary Magdalen.
The Facts Of Life - Graham Joyce - World Fantasy Award winner.
In this moving novel, Joyce traces the boyhood of Frank Vine, born into a loving and ramshackle family in the English countryside during World War II. The product of a brief liaison between an American GI and a local woman, Frank is marked with an extrasensory gift that he shares with his matriarchal grandmother and his emotionally unstable mother. Shortly after his birth, Frank's mother is deemed unfit to care for him, so his grandmother makes the executive decision that his care will be divided among his six aunts, each highly unconventional in her own right. During the next 10 years, Frank makes his home at a farm, a commune, and a makeshift mortuary, slowly finding his place in his eccentric but loving family. Joyce's emotional tale skirts sentimentality by presenting the family warts and all: each of the sisters is a complex and contradictory figure, and Joyce fully examines the consequences of the small feuds and squabbles that characterize a close-knit family. A beautifully written tale that entwines domestic drama with magic realism.
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Just ordered from Barnes & Noble:
1. The Lightstone -- David Zindell
2. Coyote Dreams -- C. E. Murphy (A guilty pleasures book)
3. River of the World -- Chaz Brenchley
4. The Last Colony -- John Scalzi
From Amazon:
1. Malazon Book of the Fallen #7: The Reaper's Gale -- Steven Erikson
2. Before They are Hanged -- Joe Abercrombie
1. The Lightstone -- David Zindell
2. Coyote Dreams -- C. E. Murphy (A guilty pleasures book)
3. River of the World -- Chaz Brenchley
4. The Last Colony -- John Scalzi
From Amazon:
1. Malazon Book of the Fallen #7: The Reaper's Gale -- Steven Erikson
2. Before They are Hanged -- Joe Abercrombie
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Received my copy of The Children of Hurin in the mail... it is a lovely book. Now, if I can just clear some time to read the darned thing....
Yeh tell me about it!....
Picked up....
Recommended by Jay....Imajica - Clive Barker.
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension. That dimension is one of five in the great system called Imajica. They are worlds that are utterly unlike our own, but are ruled, peopled, and haunted by species whose lives are intricately connected with ours. As Gentle, Judith, and Pie 'oh' pah travel the Imajica, they uncover a trail of crimes and intimate betrayals, leading them to a revelation so startling that it changes reality forever
Another Fantasy Masterwork edn - Evangeline Walton's compilation of the Mabinogion
The author of the classic Mabinogian, the great compendium of medieval Welsh mythology, is unknown to us, but generations have thrilled to the magical tales set at a time when men and gods mingled, and the gods had more than met their match, tales of the wizard-prince Gwydion, of Prince Pwyll and Lord Death, and of the beautiful Rhiannon and the steadfast Branwen. In the masterful hands of Evangeline Walton the twelve "branches" of the ancient text were reworked into four compelling narratives: The Prince of Annwn, The Children of Llyr, The Song of Rhiannon, and The Island of the Mighty, resulting in one of the great epic fantasy works of literature.
Evangeline Walton's Mabinogian Tetralogy is a powerful work of the imagination, to rank with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and T. H. White's The Once and Future King. The gods and goddesses, wizards and sorceresses, the mortal men and women of ancient days come brilliantly to life. Evangeline Walton's triumph is to have constructed a vital and living world on the foundations of myth.
And last but not least.....Kull Exile Of Atlantis A beautifully illustrated edition of Robert E Howard's Kull stories and fragments including introductory notes. A precursor to the more famous Conan, Kull still stands as an important literary character in the development of the Sword & Sorcery genre in his own right!
OH..and an animated Hellboy: Storm of Swords DVD.
GOLLUM dances a small jig....
Picked up....
Recommended by Jay....Imajica - Clive Barker.
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension. That dimension is one of five in the great system called Imajica. They are worlds that are utterly unlike our own, but are ruled, peopled, and haunted by species whose lives are intricately connected with ours. As Gentle, Judith, and Pie 'oh' pah travel the Imajica, they uncover a trail of crimes and intimate betrayals, leading them to a revelation so startling that it changes reality forever
Another Fantasy Masterwork edn - Evangeline Walton's compilation of the Mabinogion
The author of the classic Mabinogian, the great compendium of medieval Welsh mythology, is unknown to us, but generations have thrilled to the magical tales set at a time when men and gods mingled, and the gods had more than met their match, tales of the wizard-prince Gwydion, of Prince Pwyll and Lord Death, and of the beautiful Rhiannon and the steadfast Branwen. In the masterful hands of Evangeline Walton the twelve "branches" of the ancient text were reworked into four compelling narratives: The Prince of Annwn, The Children of Llyr, The Song of Rhiannon, and The Island of the Mighty, resulting in one of the great epic fantasy works of literature.
Evangeline Walton's Mabinogian Tetralogy is a powerful work of the imagination, to rank with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and T. H. White's The Once and Future King. The gods and goddesses, wizards and sorceresses, the mortal men and women of ancient days come brilliantly to life. Evangeline Walton's triumph is to have constructed a vital and living world on the foundations of myth.
And last but not least.....Kull Exile Of Atlantis A beautifully illustrated edition of Robert E Howard's Kull stories and fragments including introductory notes. A precursor to the more famous Conan, Kull still stands as an important literary character in the development of the Sword & Sorcery genre in his own right!
OH..and an animated Hellboy: Storm of Swords DVD.
GOLLUM dances a small jig....
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I quite enjoyed this, although it's a strange choice for the Fantasy Masterworks series since it's quite clearly science fiction.
A definite classic, and fully deserving of all the praise heaped upon it.
I think Requiem was the last book of Graham's I read. Not because I thought it was bad - he's an excellent writer - but my taste lies in other directions. I should have another go at his stuff.
Who's Wee Dug
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Today I happened to find a hardback edition of The Night Watch,I have seen it mentioned here a few times what is the rating on it from anyone who has read it.
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