The Warrior of World's End

by Lin Carter

Book Overview

"I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man’s habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587153394
• ISBN13: 9781587153396
• Release Date: December 1974
• Publisher: Borgo Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A fun romp

This is a fun romp with some inventive creatures. A horde of blue monsters, four-feet wide at the shoulders and wielding iron bars and heavy branches, gives the heroes a good fight. This and the next of the series are some of Lin Carter's best fantasy if you like wild ideas and magician's castles. But the series rapidly loses power after the third one.

Good rousing derivative fun

This sword & sorcery novel is strongly derivative of Vance's The Dying Earth and Howard's Conan stories. On the other hand, it displays a fine sense of humour that is absent from both of its prototypes. One is reminded of Leiber's Fafhrd & Grey Mouser stories or even of Pratchett. For readers who find early Vance's tendencies to earnest prose poetry in the Dunsany - Ashton Smith mode a bit cloying, this book is actually preferable to The Dying Earth. Not one dull moment.