A World Called Camelot
Just finished reading "A World Called Camelot" by Arthur H. Landis, released by DAW Books back in 1976.
"A World Called Camelot" is not part of "Great Re-Reading of My Favorite Books When I Was Young" Project. I do recall seeing this book on the New Arrivals Section at Michelle's Bookstore back in Jacksonville, North Carolina, but for some reason I did not buy it at the time. I suspect that it was because I wasn't fond at the particular moment of time of the science fantasy genre...times and tastes can and do change, and I always remembered this book and the other two books in the trilogy. So I decided to take a chance on reading it when I came across it on the shelves in Chamblin's Bookmine - the best bookstore in all of Florida and perhaps the entire Eastern Seaboard.
The basic premise is that on Fomalhaut II, or Fergis as it's called by the furred humanoids who have a peculiar medieval society and technology, magic actually works. And yes, I suspect that "A World Called Camelot" and it's subsequent sequels can be called the first ever published "furry" novels - at least the first that I know of here in the United States.
The Watchers - a group of super advanced humans, have nicknamed Fergis "Camelot" and they want to unravel the mysteries of the only world in the known universe where magic works. Enter Adjuster Kyrie Fern, a human who has volunteered to be surgically and genetically modified to resemble a Fergisian and figure out what is going on in Camelot. Yet, unknown to Fern and his fellow Watchers is an unknown entity who is pulling the strings and just may be the most powerful being in the universe - a small teddy bear like creature named Hooli.
"A World Called Camelot" can be best described as a science knight on a quest that isn't as predictable as he thought it would be, and Fern has forgotten Clarke's Basic Law - any sufficiently advanced technology is going to appear as magic and may even be though of as much by it's willing and unwilling users.
An enjoyable science fiction action adventure epic.
Recommended.
Four Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Called-C...
"A World Called Camelot" is not part of "Great Re-Reading of My Favorite Books When I Was Young" Project. I do recall seeing this book on the New Arrivals Section at Michelle's Bookstore back in Jacksonville, North Carolina, but for some reason I did not buy it at the time. I suspect that it was because I wasn't fond at the particular moment of time of the science fantasy genre...times and tastes can and do change, and I always remembered this book and the other two books in the trilogy. So I decided to take a chance on reading it when I came across it on the shelves in Chamblin's Bookmine - the best bookstore in all of Florida and perhaps the entire Eastern Seaboard.
The basic premise is that on Fomalhaut II, or Fergis as it's called by the furred humanoids who have a peculiar medieval society and technology, magic actually works. And yes, I suspect that "A World Called Camelot" and it's subsequent sequels can be called the first ever published "furry" novels - at least the first that I know of here in the United States.
The Watchers - a group of super advanced humans, have nicknamed Fergis "Camelot" and they want to unravel the mysteries of the only world in the known universe where magic works. Enter Adjuster Kyrie Fern, a human who has volunteered to be surgically and genetically modified to resemble a Fergisian and figure out what is going on in Camelot. Yet, unknown to Fern and his fellow Watchers is an unknown entity who is pulling the strings and just may be the most powerful being in the universe - a small teddy bear like creature named Hooli.
"A World Called Camelot" can be best described as a science knight on a quest that isn't as predictable as he thought it would be, and Fern has forgotten Clarke's Basic Law - any sufficiently advanced technology is going to appear as magic and may even be though of as much by it's willing and unwilling users.
An enjoyable science fiction action adventure epic.
Recommended.
Four Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Called-C...
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