Has anyone read this series? It apparently inspired George R. R. Martin to write A Song of Ice and Fire.
I've not read this series and was reminded of it when I read this book review:
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/05/507162705/returning-to-a-beloved-series-in-the-heart-of-what-was-lost
I've not read this series and was reminded of it when I read this book review:
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/05/507162705/returning-to-a-beloved-series-in-the-heart-of-what-was-lost
It's been 23 years since Tad Williams wrapped up his staggering fantasy saga, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Originally planned as a trilogy, it eventually grew to comprise four huge novels and — by Williams' own count — a total of a million words. Shockingly, it became a bestseller, and along with Robert Jordan's vast Wheel of Time series, Williams' books helped pave the way in the '90s for George R. R. Martin's equally ambitious fantasy opus, A Song of Ice and Fire.
At last, Williams has returned to Osten Ard, the quasi-Medieval realm in which Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is set. His new novel, The Heart of What Was Lost, picks up almost precisely where the final chapter (but not the epilogue) of its predecessor, To Green Angel Tower, left off. Nearly a quarter of a century has passed in our world since that book was published, but back in the roughly Tolkien-esque domain of Osten Ard, only a few weeks have transpired. A battle for the fate of creation has been fought; in the aftermath, remnants of two warring armies marshal their forces in the frozen North.
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