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The Serpent, Part 2: The Dragon (Atlan #1b)
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Jane Gaskell
Atlan Besieged
In her quest to save the fabled Atlan, young Cija and her handsome lover, Smahil, flee the clutches of Zerd, the evil half-serpent who has conquered half the world.
But, too late, they find there is no escape from their enemy--Zerd's army covers the land from hill to valley; all beings are swept along or destroyed; all cities are laid open to the plunder of hi...more
In her quest to save the fabled Atlan, young Cija and her handsome lover, Smahil, flee the clutches of Zerd, the evil half-serpent who has conquered half the world.
But, too late, they find there is no escape from their enemy--Zerd's army covers the land from hill to valley; all beings are swept along or destroyed; all cities are laid open to the plunder of hi...more
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Published
March 10th 1985
by DAW
(first published 1963)
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Take Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan, H. Rider Haggard's Lost Civilizations and John Norman's Gor and as your heroine a princess raised to believe she's divine and men are extinct and you have the world of the Atlan Saga. This book, The Dragon isn't so much a sequel to the first book, The Serpent, as the second half--they were designed to be one book. Cija, who can be, well stupid (but almost forgivable given her background) does grow on you, which given these are supposed to be her diaries is impo...more
My favourite of the three Atlan books I have read. Subtly sexual.
Oh god, oh god, hideous Boris Vallejo cover!
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EX-LIB. 2ND IN SERIES, BOOK 1: THE SERPENT; BOOK 3: ATLAN & THE CITY.
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Gaskell was born Jane Gaskell Denvil on 7 July 1941, in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England (previously in the county of Lancashire). She is the great grandniece of the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Her first novel, Strange Evil, was written when she was 14-years-old (published two years later, in 1957). In 1963 Gaskell married truck driver Gerald Lynch; and in 1965 their daughter, Lucy Em...more
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