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Flamesong

by: M.A.R. Barker (author)

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Format: mass market paperback

ISBN: 9780886770761 (0886770769)

Publish date: September 3rd 1985

Publisher: DAW

Pages no: 412

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery

Series: Tekumel (#2)

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Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves rated it

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Four attempts and 26 years. That's how long it took me to finally complete MAR Barker's monumental "Flamesong". The world is incredible: intricate, alien, vast, internally consistent. But the late Barker's means of relating this intricacy, through long monologues at the most unlikely times, make it ...

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spocksbro rated it

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Professor Barker is a better imaginer of worlds than a writer about them.

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Amadan na Briona rated it

38 years ago

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M.A.R. Barker's world is incredibly detailed -- he even published books on the Tsolyani language. Read this book for the worldbuilding, and for a fairly decent story, but his characterization is where he falls flat -- none of the characters are particularly sympathetic or distinctive. I finished the...

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