The Runes of the Lyre

by Ardath Mayhar

A magic lyre is the key to salvation for the people of Hasyih when they are threatened by a group of rebels awakening in a neighboring world.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy

214 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar was an American writer and poet. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I.

She had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre, and won many awards for poetry. In 2008 she was honored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as an Author Emeritus.

Mayhar wrote over 60 books ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to westerns; with some work under the pseudonyms Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, John Killdeer, Ardath P. Mayhar. Joe R. Lansdale wrote simply: "Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books!"

Reviews

[Elaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

another reread; not bad, but I'm not sure why I kept it. It jumps from place to place and time to time with the lyre, so it's hard to get a handle on the characters. An interesting fantasy, but I think more could have been done with it. Mostly a cautionary tale agsinst nuclear weapons or 'unnatural' things.