Goddess of the Ice Realm

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		Goddess of the Ice Realm
		Goddess of the Ice Realm

基本信息·出版社：Tor Fantasy
·页码：536 页
·出版日期：2004年07月
·ISBN：0812575415
·International Standard Book Number：0812575415
·条形码：9780812575415
·EAN：9780812575415
·装帧：简装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Lord of the Isles

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Starting in Lord of the Isles and continuing in Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, and Mistress of the Catacombs, David Drake has told the continuing, interlocking stories of Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, young brother and sister pairs who journey together from a small town to the capital. Their destiny is to reunite the island kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. They seek to do this at a moment in history when the cosmic forces upon which magicians draw are at a thousand year peak. Wizards of even small learning are immensely powerful. Human greed and evil are reinforced by supernatural energies

In Goddess of the Ice Realm, as Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, the wizard Tenoctris perceives a powerful supernatural assault directed against them. Ilna and her beloved, Chalcus, are sent to investigate a magical threat to shipping in the north. Cashel is translated into another world by evil magic, and Sharina to yet another. All of them face deadly dangers and overcome them before they are again united during the terrifying and dramatic climax.

Filled with action, startling revelations, romance and sorcery, Goddess of the Ice Realm is epic fantasy at its exciting best.

作者简介 David Drake, an attorney and veteran SF and fantasy author, lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

编辑推荐 "Drake's ambitious high-fantasy saga, Lord of the Isles . . . is emerging as the author's most important work."
--Publishers Weekly on Mistress of the Catacombs

"The book was fascinating throughout, a pleasure to read. . . . certainly one of the finest epic fantasies of the decade."
- Piers Anthony on Lord of the Isles

"David Drake's work here is original, engrossing, and instantly credible."
- Stephen R. Donaldson on Lord of the Isles

"Goddess of the Ice Realm is a solid addition to an outstanding fantasy series, showing once again that Drake is among the most versatile of authors in the SF/Fantasy genres."
-S. M. Stirling

"The heroes are exceptionally well-written, especially the strong-willed Ilna and the unflinching Cashel -- either one of these characters could stand alone to support a book. The secondary characters also grow and change, unusual in fantasy literature. The plot moves forward at a deliberate pace, gradually exploring the people and their land."
-Starlog on Queen of Demons

"The world building and characterization here are among Drake's best, and the magic is well thought out. Drake clearly has embarked on a fantasy saga as big as Eddings', Jordan's, and Goodkind's and as eminently worth reading."
-Booklist on Queen of Demons

"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

专业书评 From the Back Cover

"Certainly one of the finest epic fantasies of the decade."- Piers Anthony on Lord of the Isles

"David Drake's work here is original, engrossing, and instantly credible. Quite wonderful." - Stephen R. Donaldson on Lord of the Isles

Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, are young brother and sister pairs whose destiny is to reunite the kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium.

As Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, his benign wizard Tenoctris perceives a powerful supernatural threat directed against them. Ilna and her beloved, Chalcus, are sent to investigate a magical menace to shipping in the north. Cashel is translated into another world by evil magic, and Sharina to yet another. All of them face deadly dangers and overcome them before they are again united during the terrifying and dramatic climax.

An action-filled and complex plot filled with surprises and startling revelations, romance and sorcery, Goddess of the Ice Realm is first rate fantasy.

文摘 Chapter One
 
 
I think the rain’s going to hold off after all,” said Garric, eyeing the sky to seaward where clouds had been lowering all day as the royal fleet made its way up the western coast of Haft.
If it didn’t, well, he wouldn’t shrink. For most of his nineteen years he’d been a peasant who herded sheep and worked in the yard of his father’s inn, often enough in the rain. But now he was Prince Garric of Haft, making a Royal Progress from Tisamur, through Cordin, and to Carcosa on Haft. He was here to convince the folk living in the West that there was a real Kingdom of the Isles again and that they were part of it. It’s hard to impress people in a downpour; all they really care about is getting under cover as soon as the foreign fools let them.
“Ah, you can believe that if you wish, your highness,” said Lobon, the sailing master of the Shepherd of the Isles. His voice mushed through a mouthful of maca root, which oarsmen claimed gave them strength and deadened the pain of their muscles. “What I say is that we’ll have a squall before we’ve settled half so many ships into their berths.”
He nodded glumly toward the harbor mouth ahead. “That’s if Carcosa even has berths for a hundred warships. We’re at the back of beyond!”
“Carcosa can berth a hundred warships,” Garric said, a trifle more sharply than the sailing master’s comment deserved. “A thousand years ago when Carus was King of the Isles and Carcosa was his capital, the harbor held as many as five hundred.”
Lobon was a skillful judge of winds, currents, and the way to get the best out of even a clumsy quinquereme like the Shepherd, but he’d been born on the island of Ornifal. He was just as much of an Ornifal chauvinist as a landowning noble like Lord Waldron, commander of t
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