– Dette er den andre boka Marion Zimmer Bradley skrev i Avalon-historien, men kronologisk sett er den lagt tidligere i tid. Vi møter Elian og Gaius. Hun er brite, han er av blandet opphav,med britisk mor og romersk far. Det er forutsagt at disse to skal legge grunnlaget for samlingen av Britannia til et rike. Samtidig er de begge brikker i et storpolitisk spill!
Deres kjærlighet kan aldri offentliggjøres, men ingen av dem er istand til å glemme den andre, sjøl om livet må gå videre.
Denne boka er ikke like god som "The Mists of Avalon", men det skal jo også godt gjøres... Den er allikevel svært underholdende, og jeg anbefaler den svært gjerne!
Om du velger å lese serien kronologisk, eller som forfatteren skrev dem er opp til deg sjøl. Men Marion Zimmer Bradley skal ha uttalt at hun ønsket den skulle leses i den rekkefølgen hun skrev den.
Forests of Avalon
The Forest House tells of an era of upheaval and change. The Roman grip on their empire was slackening; the Druidic Order - far stronger that the tiny Christian sect - was itself in turmoil. Caught in the centre of the conflict is a young British girl of druidic family, chosen to be a priestess, and a roman tribune, ambitious for power but - as the son of a British mother - torn between two cultures. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 576
- ISBN
- 9780140273823
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 18 x 11 cm
Om forfatteren
Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.
She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels.
In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books.
Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon.
She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.