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Derek
Dec 27, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: high-fantasy, ballantine-adult-fantasy
It has a dreamworld or afterworld quality, with the circumstances of the story evolving as it progresses. Some elements--Lessingham's framing device, the planet Mercury--drop away. Some mutate: the story itself transforms from mythic heroic adventure to political intrigue to military chronicle as the needs dictate. It is completely in the moment, heedless of its inconsistencies or anachronisms. It is grand and sprawling and filled with base treachery and grand heroism.

I am rather glad for having ...more
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Tor.com Publishing
Nov 23, 2015 added it
This is billed as the book that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien, & I get that. It also deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as E.R. Burroughs, with the Planetary Romance angle-- it's sort of like the lovechild of A Princess of Mars & the Silmarillion. Needless to say, I adored it. --MK ...more
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Curt Lorde
Aug 09, 2010 rated it it was amazing
The prose style is dated, the names of the races are unimaginative, but the Demon king Lord Juss, the Witches' Gorice the ever menace,the swashbuckling Brandoch Daha of Demonland and the Machiavellian Lord Gro, are some of the best heroes and believable high epic villains to ever be scribbled on any medium. No middle class or peasant types here, well there is yeoman's homecoming described,this is an adventure tale of the contending aristocracies of a planet called Mercury, which ain't like the o ...more
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Matt
Dec 03, 2007 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: owned
Danushka
Mar 14, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
Jason
Apr 24, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites
Steven Harbin
Sep 07, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Matthew Pridham
Sep 14, 2011 marked it as to-read
Doug Draa
Feb 20, 2012 rated it it was ok
Jason Koivu
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Sep 10, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Bruce
Dec 21, 2012 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
Robert Mullin
Dec 21, 2012 marked it as to-read
Jason Waltz
May 17, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fantastical, own
Steven
Sep 23, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Sarah Avery
Jan 01, 2014 rated it liked it
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Oct 27, 2021 rated it liked it
Christopher
Jan 28, 2014 marked it as to-read
Chompa
Dec 06, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Nora
Nov 19, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy-1
Jon
Oct 11, 2023 added it
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