Really, don't miss this one!Ī Christian Alternate World Amnesiac Hero Romp Honestly, I could listen to this storyteller all day! This is a classic from the Golden Age of Fantasy, and the narrator is golden. The other accents and voices are distinctive and each evokes a particular sense of that character.
In this book, the hero's slight Danish inflection is done perfectly.
I've listened to several of his audiobooks, and he just flabbergasts me with the range of his characterizations. See what I mean? Clever.) That said, I have to say that Bronson Pinchot is completely phenomenal. (See, for example, his analysis of the source of the curse on the Giant's gold. His empirical understanding of things that look magical are clever. I like the scientific-nerd-in-a-magical-environment. I like that there are many different encounters with many different challenges instead of one huge mega-battle. I like the slowly revealing details of the quest as the hero recovers memories.
It's a great story, a stand-out among many of the same genre from the same time. Inventive and exciting, Three Hearts and Three Lions is a foray into fantasy that employs touches of science fiction from an award-winning master of the speculative.This was a favorite book of mine many (MANY) years ago, and I was interested in remembering why I liked it so much. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the great Poul Anderson introduced readers to the Middle World and the legendary hero Ogier the Dane. As he journeys through a realm filled with wonders in search of the key to his past, Holger will call upon the scientific knowledge of his home dimension, the destinies of both worlds hanging in the balance.īefore Thomas Covenant, Roger Zelazny's Amber, and J. He finds weaponry and armor awaiting him-precisely fitted to his form-and a shield with three hearts and three lions emblazoned upon it. Though Holger has no recollection of this world, he discovers he is already well-known throughout the lands, a hero revered as a Champion of Law. Against a medieval backdrop, brave knights must take up arms against magical creatures of myth and faerie, battling dragons, trolls, werewolves, and giants. A Danish engineer working with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he is wounded during an engagement with the enemy and awakens in an unfamiliar parallel universe where the forces of Law are locked in eternal combat with the forces of Chaos. Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic fantasy adventure.
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