The Fisher King Trilogy (Magill’s Choice: Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Tim Powers
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novels
- Time of Work: 1990-1995
- Setting: Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., Fathers, Inheritance or succession, Card games, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Southwest, 1990’s, Nevada, Dams or reservoirs, Resurrection, Wounds or injuries, Quest, Winter, Tarot, Seasons, Autumn, Eye, Spring, Arthurian legend, Las Vegas
- Locales: Southern California, Las Vegas, NV
The Story
The Fisher King trilogy chronicles the apotheosis of Scott Crane, the son of a corrupt gangster who rules a mystical realm of nebulous boundaries in the American West. Scott and his father, Georges Leon, possess magical powers that are explicitly associated with those of the Fisher King of Arthurian legend. Scott must challenge his father and assume the kingship of the West in order to save what has become a political, financial, architectural, and spiritual wasteland. Dramatizing the stages of the symbolic life of the Fisher King, each novel is set in a different...
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