Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780575074255
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0575074256
Label: Gollancz
Manufacturer: Gollancz
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 12, 2002
Publisher: Gollancz
Studio: Gollancz

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Rating: - Excellent fantasy, perhaps a bit too gory for some
I purchased this book on the strength of the reviews I read on Amazon. I am not a heavy reader, but like the occasional fantasy novel. I was slowly working my way through David Gemmell's books as I enjoy them a lot. One day my bag for work was so full I couldn't fit in my huge Gemmell book and so took this book with me instead.

My tube got stuck that morning and I ended up reading 70 pages by the time I got to work. I enjoyed the book so much that I was actually disappointed when I reached ... Read More

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Rating: - This IS the original version!
"Returning reader " is mixing things up. The Fantasy Masterworks edition of the book contains the original text! The edition with an introduction by Lin Carter is the revised text; exactly the opposite of what "Returning reader" claims.

Thanks to Fantasy Materworks for bringing us the original, more furious, darker and better version of this wonderful book.

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Rating: - This IS the original version.
"Returning reader" is wrong. This IS the original version of the text that was later revised; the version with introduction by Lin Carter is NOT the original - it is the revised one!

Thanks to Fantasy Masterworks for bringing us the original and more furious version of this wonderful story.

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Rating: - Returning reader
I first read this book in the Sphere print, with the intriduction by Lin Carter, in about 1977, and was blown away by the subject, the pace, the characterisation and the sense of inevitable doom - definitely Tolkien for grown-ups. The version I first read was most certainly not suitable for a 17 year old boy, but I read it with an unhallowed thrill, devouring the lovingly described scenes of extreme violence and amorous activities, and when the book was re-issued, I bought it last year with eager anticipation, ... Read More

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Rating: - The lost and found sword
One afternoon in 1954 I walked into the library to do research for a school report and ended up at the "new aquisitions" bin instead. There I found a slim volume with "sword" in the title, opened it, and still standing by the bin, read it from cover to cover. I then rushed home without taking proper note of title or author, and spent the next ten years trying to identify it. It was only when a fellow-graduate-student took me to a party at Poul's house that I found the book once more, and re-read it with even ... Read More

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