The Lyonesse Trilogy (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack Vance
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—high fantasy
- Time of Work: Early in the Middle Ages
- Setting: The Elder Isles
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Changelings or cuckoos, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Kings, queens, or royalty, Middle Ages, Princes or princesses, Fairies, Holy Grail or Grail quest
- Locales: Islands, Mythical lands
The Plot
Although magic exists in the Elder Isles, Murgen, the most powerful wizard, has decreed that no magician can aid a kingdom. The kings must use their own wiles to advance their goals.
Suldrun, the daughter of King Casmir of Lyonesse, is ignored by her parents. She grows up as a free spirit and finds happiness in her private garden. Eventually, however, she gets caught up in her father’s political ambitions and schemes. He intends to have her wed Faude Carfilhiot, the lord of a strategic castle. Suldrun, sensing evil in Carfilhiot, flees to her garden, thus...
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