Books, Films Etc
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liadnanPoul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions
In which a Danish resistance member during WWII crosses to a fairly close and, magic etc aside, recognisable analogue of medieval Europe and finds himself in the middle of some kind of cross between the Matter of France, the Matter of Britain, and a dash of the Nibelungenlied. Enjoyable, well-researched, and well-written, as is almost invariably true of Anderson, but I couldn't see the specific quality that had caused Gollancz to decide it was worthy of inclusion in the Fantasy Masterworks series. Latterly I've thought that both this and its elder brother, the SF Masterworks series, were rather scraping the barrel (and on the latter, guys, you don't need to reprint all of PKD, for one thing a fair bit of his work wasn't any good, for another there are plenty of decent editions around). Still, any series that brings back into print Hope Mirrilees' Lud in the Mist and John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting is doing well in my book.
In which a Danish resistance member during WWII crosses to a fairly close and, magic etc aside, recognisable analogue of medieval Europe and finds himself in the middle of some kind of cross between the Matter of France, the Matter of Britain, and a dash of the Nibelungenlied. Enjoyable, well-researched, and well-written, as is almost invariably true of Anderson, but I couldn't see the specific quality that had caused Gollancz to decide it was worthy of inclusion in the Fantasy Masterworks series. Latterly I've thought that both this and its elder brother, the SF Masterworks series, were rather scraping the barrel (and on the latter, guys, you don't need to reprint all of PKD, for one thing a fair bit of his work wasn't any good, for another there are plenty of decent editions around). Still, any series that brings back into print Hope Mirrilees' Lud in the Mist and John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting is doing well in my book.
