Cyrion

by Tanith Lee

Book Overview

He came to the Honey Garden looking for Cyrion. He was a man in grave danger, convinced only one man alive could help him. A man he had heard about in song and story. A man practically everyone knew... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879977655
• ISBN13: 9780879977658
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enter the vivid imagination of Tanith Lee

Cyrion is a series of short stories about a hero-nomad-wanderer set in the high middle eastern civilization of Arabian Nights. It will leave you wanting more. Tanith Lee's style is mystical and dreamy. Her descriptions lift you out of your world and draw you into the book like few others I have read. Read these stories late at night, and you will find yourself looking up and blinking at the normalcy of your surroundings after ther first few pages. Cyrion travels the desert as in a dream, wholly competent and capable, going and coming in a foggy vision as though he appears and dissapears into the sand itself. The setting in Middle Eastern folklore is refreshing after so much Celtic and Norse mythology. The perfect book to read in bed! And an excellent introduction to Ms. Lee's style.

I want more!

It begins with various characters in an inn exchanging stories about the mysterious adventurer, Cyrion, and it ends up as a magical detective story filled with ghosts, witches, swashbuckling fun, and delightful duplicity. Tanith Lee never lets me down, but I wish she'd write more about Cyrion. A note to fellow females: I usually go for the tall,dark types, but I could certainly go for the Cyrion type.

for those with imagination

I have loved this book for years. It is one of the best fantasy books I have ever read. The characters and setting are rich and full of everything you need for a fantastic voyage into inagination.

THIS IS A MASTERPIECE

This is a book for people who love GOOD pulp fiction. This is what Robert E. Howard would have written, if he had written the adventures of Simon Templer, alais The Saint. Subtle, insightful. Fun. Wish she would write more in this vein.

Enthralling,truly captures the spirit of sword & sorcery.

Absolutely the best fantasy book I have ever read the character Cyrion comes to life in a complex of mind, strength and will. He is basically a nomadic drifter that uses his skills as a wizard & swordsman to help himself become more powerfull but in turn helps those less fortunate than himself. Written in the style of a serial he falls into one adventure unto the other. If you've read and enjoy Edgar Rice, Terry Brooks or Tolken. Find this book it is a masterpiece.