Lord of the Isles
In the days following an unusually severe storm, the inhabitants of a tiny seaport town travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world. "Unlike most modern fantasy, David Drake's Lord of the Isles is an epic with the texture of the legends of yore, with rousing action and characters to cheer for." —Terry Goodkind "True brilliance is as rare as a perfect diamond or a supernova. Lord of the Isles is truly brilliant. We are in at the birth of a classic....There is a lot of fantasy out there, but there is only one Lord of the Isles." —Morgan Llywelyn
"David Drake's work here is original, engrossing, and instantly
credible. After all the hackneyed, repetitive fantasy I've read
recently, Lord of the Isles seems quite wonderful." —Stephen R.
Donaldson Edited by David G. Hartwell |
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. First printing, August 1997 Distributed by Simon & Schuster Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
PS3554.R196L67 1997 |
ISBN: 0-812-52240-0Copyright 1997 by David Drake All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Tor Book Tor Books on the World Wide Web: Tor is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Electronic version by WebWrights |
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David Drake has long been one of the foremost names in fantasy and science fiction adventure. For years a majority of his work has been in the popular military SF genre, but his origins lie in fantasy. He is widely respected for the detailed accuracy of his fiction: "He does homework intelligently; his books are marked by factual research, and then by insight into what those facts add up to," says The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Now, in Lord of the Isles, Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure filled with passion and magic, set in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. "David Drake's work here is original, engrossing, and instantly credible. After all the hackneyed, repetitive fantasy I've read recently, Lord of the Isles seems quite wonderful."—Stephen R. Donaldson To Dan BreenMy first reader, and a striking example of how different very similar people can be. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSSandra Miesel helped a great deal with the microstructure. Tom Doherty and Harriet McDougal made equally important suggestions regarding the macrostructure at the beginning and the end of the process respectively. In a different fashion, the fact that I didn't have to revert to composing in longhand in the middle of the novel is due to the efforts of Mark L. Van Name and Allyn Vogel. People who know computers as intimately as Mark and Allyn do find my needs peculiar, but they expended enormous effort to satisfy me. |
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With
Lord of the Isles, David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering
and complex epic of heroic adventure set in an extraordinary and
colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising
to a thousand-year peak.