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Earth Magic [Kindle Edition]

Alexei Panshin , Cory Panshin
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Neither swords-and-sorcery nor Tolkienesque romance, Earth Magic presents an archaic world in the tradition of the Northern European epic poems. Haldane, the young son of the Get warlord Black Morca, encounters a witch in the woods who unsettles his composure with prophecies of strange events and major changes. He returns home to find the first of the prophecies already come true—his father has been off raiding the more civilized countries to the West and has returned with a Western princess for Haldane to marry. Morca's ambitions arouse mistrust and anger among the other Get lords, and soon Haldane finds himself fleeing for his life with only a wizard of uncertain skills as his companion. Their journey will take them through hidden realms, to a decisive moonlight battle on Stone Heath amid the great menhirs, a place charged with earth magic and bloody memory.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 341 KB
  • Print Length: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Electric Story (1 Sep 2004)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004I6EIDM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #458,852 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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By Jason
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I will be honest, the first time I read this, I didn't like it at all. I was about to give it to a charity shop when I read it again and was blown away.

The problem was, when I bought it I was in the mood for a sword and sorcery book - we can't read high art all the time, and I just wanted to read a nice, straight-forward hack n slay story. I had read a SF book by the author, saw the cover, and bought it on spec.

However, this book is not a straight-foward story. It focuses on the struggle the main protagonist has with doing his duty in avenging his father, and his attraction to magic and the Earth goddess of an 'inferior' people who his people have conquered. Add in the dreamlike affects of the magic as he learns to use it, and it is actually a complex book.

I don't think the cover does this any favours (my copy was published in 1980). It mislead me into expecting one type of novel when it was something very different. It felt more like a Tanith Lee book (who I also like) than the Conan pastiche I thought it would be. One of the better stand-alone fantasy novels I've read for a long time, shows you don't need an endless series of doorstoppers to tell a good story.
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