From Publishers Weekly
In the second book of Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, the five protagonistsordinary Toronto college studentsreturn once more to become warriors and wizards in the beleaguered fantasy world of Fionavar, now suffering an unnaturally prolonged winter. To combat dread Rakoth Maugrim, King Arthur and Lancelot are revived and the Wild Hunt summoned from its long sleep. Together they vanquish the attacking wolf packs and shatter the cauldron of power. As the book ends, though, they are still deep in danger and hopelessly mired somewhere in mid-story. This elaborate, lore-filled fantasy, smelling of dusty library stacks and perfumed prose, will doubtless please those who enjoyed the first volume, The Summer Tree. Both are striking as unconscious but almost clinical catalogues of an adolescent world view, full of self-dramatization and self-pity, a desperation for instant status or celebrity, a preoccupation with lost love and death (which become equivalent totems) and a general lack of humor or perspective. SF Book Club Main selection. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
A mage's power has brought five university students from our world into a realm where an ancient evil has freed itself from captivity to wreak revenge on its enemies.
Praise for The Fionavar Tapestry:
One of the very best fantasies to have appeared since Tolkien. (Andre Norton)
Kay's intricate Celtic background will please fantasy buffs. (Publishers Weekly)
Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes. (Toronto Star)
This is the only fantasy work I know which does not suffer by comparison to The Lord of the Rings. (Interzone)
A grand galloping narrative...reverberates with centuries of mythic and incantory implications. (Christian Science Monitor)
The essence of high fantasy...a remarkable achievement. (Locus)
The Fionavar Tapestry is a work that will be read for many years to come. (Charles de Lint)
The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry Series #2) ANNOTATION
The ice of eternal winter enshrouds Fionavar and frees the Unraveller, whose terrible vengeance takes its toll on mortals and immortals, mages and warriors, dwarves and the Children of Light. Only five people who were brought by a mage's power to Fionavar can hope to wake the allies they so desperately need. "One of the very best of the fantasies which have appeared since Tolkien. . . ."--Andre Norton. Reissue.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
A mage's power has brought five university students from our world into a realm where an ancient evil has freed itself from captivity to wreak revenge on its enemies.
Praise for The Fionavar Tapestry:
One of the very best fantasies to have appeared since Tolkien. (Andre Norton)
Kay's intricate Celtic background will please fantasy buffs. (Publishers Weekly)
Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes. (Toronto Star)
This is the only fantasy work I know which does not suffer by comparison to The Lord of the Rings. (Interzone)
A grand galloping narrative...reverberates with centuries of mythic and incantory implications. (Christian Science Monitor)
The essence of high fantasy...a remarkable achievement. (Locus)
The Fionavar Tapestry is a work that will be read for many years to come. (Charles de Lint)
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
In the second book of Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, the five protagonistsordinary Toronto college studentsreturn once more to become warriors and wizards in the beleaguered fantasy world of Fionavar, now suffering an unnaturally prolonged winter. To combat dread Rakoth Maugrim, King Arthur and Lancelot are revived and the Wild Hunt summoned from its long sleep. Together they vanquish the attacking wolf packs and shatter the cauldron of power. As the book ends, though, they are still deep in danger and hopelessly mired somewhere in mid-story. This elaborate, lore-filled fantasy, smelling of dusty library stacks and perfumed prose, will doubtless please those who enjoyed the first volume, The Summer Tree. Both are striking as unconscious but almost clinical catalogues of an adolescent world view, full of self-dramatization and self-pity, a desperation for instant status or celebrity, a preoccupation with lost love and death (which become equivalent totems) and a general lack of humor or perspective. SF Book Club Main selection. ( June 27)
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