Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul Anderson -Vintage Fantasy Story Human Voice Sleepstory Audiobook
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2025
- This is a sword and sorcery-style fantasy novella, an early yarn by SFWA Grand Master Poul Anderson who quite obviously is trying to outdo Robert E. Howard at his own game. This is an action-packed tale of a sandy-haired pirate captain hero with rippling muscles, the king's daughter who is a raven-haired beauty, herself a witch who may or may not be evil and who may or may not have the hero under her spell, and her grandfather, a definitely evil and wizened sorcerer with machinations too heinous to let be. Set in a world very much inspired by Ancient Greece crossed with any classic fantasy world you might want to think of, populated with many different races of men and beast, including the aquatic Xanth, demonic serpent-men with powerful sorceries who ride the beasts of the sea, and know no other human emotion than hatred...
Oh yeah, we know what we are getting just by reading the title, don't we? The oil goes on both the sword and the muscles!
The original blurb:
Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-haunted Citadel of the Xanthi wizards-into the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate of Conahur, laughed. Aye, he'd do it, and gladly. It would mean a reprieve from the headsman's axe-a few more precious moments of life and love ... though his lover be a witch!
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was American born of Scandinavian descent, and even lived a few years in Denmark before the second world war broke out. A prolific and renowned author of Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Golden Age, many of his stories are inspired by and feature elements from Scandinavian folk tales and Norse sagas.
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