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Title	:	Lyonesse (Lyonesse #1)
Author	:	Jack Vance
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 488 pages
Published	:	2008 by Gollancz (first published 1983)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Epic Fantasy

Lyonesse (Lyonesse #1) Paperback | Pages: 488 pages

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Mixed feelings.

I wanted to LOVE this book, wanted it to prove how Jack Vance is the vanguard of best writers you’ve not read, this was going to be the diamond in the rough, the treasure chest uncovered and raised from the depths of out-of-printness.

And there were parts, PARTS, I did love.

I loved the idea behind the book. Take a thirty-year mortgage of artistic license and slap a scotch tape amendment on the globe and you’ve got an idea about the cajones that Vance displayed. I mean, he just ADDED a continent. Take a truckload of myths and legends, and SMACK, there we go, right THERE, between Ireland, Cornwall and Gaul. Like a Steve Martin thumbprint on the snow globe of history.

I loved the Celtic, Gaelic, Druidic – Atlantean – themes riding bareback across the pages. Vance dredged up our collective mythic pre-history and made it fit somewhere in the early dark ages. Rome? Still there. Germanic migrations? Yep. Avalon and Ys? There – right here – right over here in the Elder Isles. The what? “Forget it, he’s rolling.”

And just like John “Brother Bluto” Blutarsky Jack Vance was rolling, but in his own, weird atavistic and eclectic style.

Along with faerie stories straight out of Celtic Twilight, there are creepy and dark tales from Brothers Grimm and the Black Forest, and also some gratuitous and graphic medieval violence.

There are the Ska, a dramatically interesting and cruelly charismatic race of people who have a fascinating ten thousand year cultural history – that we don’t read enough about.

There are characters to whom we are introduced and in whom we are invested that … kind of just go away.

There are great disjointed inconsistencies that … intrigue and make me want to read the next book.

It’s like the really pretty girl in high school who is inexplicably not asked out to prom. It’s like the New York Yankees who outspent every other team, have the best hitters and the most devastatingly unhittable pitchers … who miss the playoffs. It’s a good book that might have been, should have been great – but was just good.

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Original Title:	Suldrun's Garden
ISBN:	0575082712 (ISBN13: 9780575082717)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Lyonesse #1
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1984), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1984), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1984), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1985)

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The novel begins intriguingly with its numerous references to what will become Arthurian mythology. Lyonesse itself is a historically apocryphal part of the Pendragon/Arthurian Britain, but Vance has no desire for historical accuracy and populates it with wizards, unicorns and monsters that none of the pseudo-realistic Arthurian writers bring out today. His book begins with the lives of several privileged children that are either privy to the political designs of their parents or are being

I first read Suldrun's Garden when it came out in the 1980s. At least I think I did; maybe it was later. In any case, I didn't like it much. I recall thinking that it seemed like an effort to get in on the latest Arthurian craze (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon came out around the same time. It felt like references to myth and legend were shoehorned in, and Vancian imagination was crowded out. It was still written in his inimitable style, though, so I read the rest of the series anyway.

Mixed feelings.I wanted to LOVE this book, wanted it to prove how Jack Vance is the vanguard of best writers youve not read, this was going to be the diamond in the rough, the treasure chest uncovered and raised from the depths of out-of-printness.And there were parts, PARTS, I did love. I loved the idea behind the book. Take a thirty-year mortgage of artistic license and slap a scotch tape amendment on the globe and youve got an idea about the cajones that Vance displayed. I mean, he just ADDED

DNF at 38%"- Shimrod, do you love me?- I am fascinated and obsessed. And I am not even sorry.Correct me if I am wrong, but I think it's Arthurian fantasy. The dreamy, all over the place Arthurian fantasy. I rarely read it, and while I wasn't warned by any notifications on the cover, I thought it will be fine. But it wasn't. I guess me and Arthurian fantasy are not meant to be together. Everything happens just because, fairy there, princess here, everything is blurry and a little bit messy.

Perfection...

Wow. What a wonderful surprise! For an early eighties fantasy, it reads rather fantastically easy, with a near perfect blend of adventure, spry heroes and heroines, and an almost mythical command of myth, history, and magic in a hugely creative blend. We're not even bogged down in any such weird concepts like "historical accuracy", either. And actually, I loved the whole idea of slap-dashing a whole continent next to Gaul and throwing in Merlin (Murgen), Mithra, evil christians, the fae,

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.As I'm writing this, Jack Vance's under-appreciated Lyonesse trilogy has been off the shelves for years. My library doesn't even have a copy it had to be interlibrary loaned for me. Why is that? Publishers have been printing a seemingly endless stream of vampire and werewolf novels these days same plot, same characters, blah blah blah. If not that, it's grit. We all want grit. Or maybe it's that more women are reading fantasy these days and publishers