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David Drake Lord of the Isles
Tor Fantasy Feb-06 0765354764 / 9780765354761 Paperback Very Good
0765354764 David Drake made his name in genre fiction with the Hammer's Slammers serie s of military science fiction about tough future mercenaries, launched in 1 979. A versatile writer, he's also published well-received fantasies. Lord of the Isles opens a massive new saga of clashing swords and spells in an a rchipelago world. One thousand years beforehand, potent sorcery won a war o nly for it to backlash and sink the winning island. Now, with magic reachin g another millennial peak of power, the world is endangered. Among the play ers are a king's ghost and two magicians who were present at the ancient di saster (one of them caused it), plus modern wizards, warriors, and unknowin g descendants of royalty. Drake skillfully juggles multiple storylines as h is engaging characters meet a wild variety of danger: rising and vanishing lands, the reanimated dead (not only human dead), out-of-control sorcery, d emons, riots, traps, and other planes of reality including hell itself. The magic comes in several fascinating and often unpleasant flavors. Even like able characters may die. This story reads well and halts at a satisfying mo ment of victory rather than at a nail-biting cliffhanger. It doesn't quite achieve epic scale--clearly Drake is keeping major trump cards in reserve f or the coming sequels. A promising start. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From Library Journal Drake, best known for his military sf novels (e.g., Redliners, Baen, 1996), here serves up a fantasy tale with an Arthurian twist. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavai
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