The Forever King (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—medieval future
- Time of Work: Primarily the early 1990s and medieval times
- Setting: New York, England, the Middle East, and Hong Kong
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Arthurian romance
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, England or English people, Time travel, 1990’s, Reincarnation, Middle Ages, Middle East, Talisman or magical object, Holy Grail or Grail quest
- Locales: New York, England, Hong Kong, Middle East
The Plot
Arthur Blessing, a ten-year-old New Yorker, finds a magical cup once possessed by Christ, at the Last Supper, and by the evil Arab Saladin. The cups history is told by the centuries-old Saladin, who used the cup, often referred to as the Holy Grail, as a means of gaining eternal life. Saladin had lost this vessel three times. Saladin retrieved the cup the first time when he was told the story of Christ drinking from it at the Last Supper. The second loss occurred in the Middle Ages, when the cup fell into the possession of the wizard Merlin, who wanted to give it to...
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