Re: Glorantha Novels

From: aysezz <Aysez_at_YtRhgWI8TQOpmlsjKzoevEPocDe0HhPqEjfloS9DNi0ori1w02sk8b92SonpJOJcnue9Em>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:45:35 -0000


I've got King of Sartar already, but not the others. I'm going to see if I can scare-up a copy of The Entekosiad now, though. That one sounds quite cool.

> I think King of Sartar may qualify. It was marketed as a "Gloranthan
> novel by Greg Stafford" by French publisher Oriflam, although it's
> more a collection of different stories, sagas and myths about the
> Hero Wars in Dragon Pass, told in a distant future.
>
> There were other such sourcebooks such as The Glorious Reascent of
> Yelm, Fortunate Succession, and The Entekosiad, but they look more
> like ancient chronicles or historical records, except the
> Entekosiad which is the story of a forgotten, mythical Pelorian
> dream-time as visited by a Lunar heroine. At any rate, I don't
> think they've all been written with a pure literary focus. It's
> more like deep immersion into a detailed vision of different
> Gloranthan settings.
>
> Jerome Blondel
>
           

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