I got this book ages ago on the strength of it being edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of my favorite authors back when this book was published in 1983. "Greyhaven" is one of the homes that MZB lived in, and "the spiritual home" to a community of writers, friends and family of the author who writ...
Just when I was about to lob this book aside, because reading these last few 'Gandalara' books has been like a slow-building venom, each instance of poor writing (and careless editing), emotional exposition, and unneeded reminders that Rikardon is very special indeed, making me more sick, the books ...
And so it ends.The 'Gandalara Cycle' was a touchstone of my adolescence, coming around at a time when I first really began exploring fantasy and science fiction as independent genres as opposed to just the more exciting brand of book. I was bowled over by it, I thought and thought and thought about ...
What happened? When I finished the first three Gandalara books I was feeling pretty confident. They'd held up reasonably well under adult scrutiny and were a fun adventure series. Starting with 'The Well of Darkness' the formula goes off, the humor vanishes, and the budding relationship between Rika...
I've had to pick up and flip through the first omnibus of this series to see if I was kidding myself about enjoying them. 'The Well of Darkness' was all backtrack-ey and too redundant to be enjoyable. There are problems here, too, but the book trades in on enough revisiting of characters from the fi...
So I ended my reading of the first three books of the ' Gandalara Cycle ' feeling pretty good about revisiting them. Sure, they were a little hokey, but the adventure was solid and these aren't the kind of books you read to appreciate as works of art anyway. They're supposed to be fun, escapist thin...
Fittingly, the first trilogy of the 'Gandalara Cycle' is almost complete in and of itself - though the series was always planned as a seven-book story. There are a few questions left unanswered, however and the full scope of this series' ambition has yet to be revealed.Rikardon, Tarani and Thymas (a...
The 'Gandalara Cycle' was one of those great, accidental reads. It was given to me along with a bunch of other SF and fantasy books in middle school and despite their battered appearance rose to the top of the stack of books I wanted to read. Right now.That decision may or may not have been influenc...
Just as Rikardon is begining to adjust to his new world and situation, his body's past catches up to him. Markasset ran up some heavy debts, but the man he owes isn't going to be satisfied by only money...that sounds like sexual innuendo. Leaving it!Forced to leave Raithskar in a hurry, Rikardon see...
Ricardo Emilio Carlillo wakes up in the desert thinking he must be in Hell. His last memory is that he was an older man, dying of cancer, standing on the deck of a ship, watching the swift approach of a meteor with a beautiful young woman. But now he's in Gandalara, in the body of Markasset, a young...
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