E.R. Eddison

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born

November 24, 1882 in Adel, Leeds, The United Kingdom

died

August 18, 1945

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Eric Rücker Eddison was an English civil servant and author, writing under the name "E.R. Eddison."

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Books by E.R. Eddison

Average rating: 3.78 · 1,271 ratings · 137 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison, Keith Henderson (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 1922 — 60 editions	My rating:
	Mistress of Mistresses 3.60 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1935 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Fish Dinner in Memison 3.56 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1941 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Mezentian Gate 3.42 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1950 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Zimiamvia: A Trilogy by E.R. Eddison, Paul Edmund Thomas (Introduction), Douglas E. Winter (Foreword) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Styrbiorn The Strong 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1926 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson, E.R. Eddison (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 1240 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Poems, Letters, and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn (1916) by Philip Sidney Nairn, E.R. Eddison (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare, E.R. Eddison 3.41 avg rating — 2,921 ratings — published 1623 — 122 editions	My rating:

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Series by E.R. Eddison

The Zimiamvian Trilogy (3 books)
by E.R. Eddison

3.59 avg rating — 254 ratings

Quotes by E.R. Eddison

“Let worthy minds ne'er stagger in distrust
To suffer death or shame for what is just”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

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“A thin ungracious drink is the well-spring, a drink for queasy-stomached skipjacks: for sand-levericks, not for men. And like it is the dayspring: an ungrateful sapless hour, an hour for stab-i'-the-backs and cold-blooded betrayers. Ah, give me wine, and noon-day vices, and brazen-browed iniquities.”
― E.R. Eddison

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“The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

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Polls

JULY FANTASY: This poll decides which two novels move on the run-off poll for our July 2012 SF Book of the Month

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

19 votes, 18.8%

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

18 votes, 17.8%

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

16 votes, 15.8%

Three Days to Never by Tim Powers

13 votes, 12.9%

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

11 votes, 10.9%

Silverlock by John Myers Myers

8 votes, 7.9%

The Goblin Mirror by C.J. Cherryh

6 votes, 5.9%

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

4 votes, 4.0%

The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll

3 votes, 3.0%

Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. Eddison

3 votes, 3.0%

101 total votes

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