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The Dark World, by Henry Kuttner
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World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not as it seems in this shadowy mirror of the real world, and Bond discovers that a part of him feels more at home here than he ever has on Earth.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
The Dark World, by Henry Kuttner- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .27" w x 8.50" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 118 pages
About the Author Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 4, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. YET ANOTHER WINNING FANTASY FROM KUTTNER & MOORE By s.ferber 1946 was a very good year indeed for sci-fi's foremost husband-and-wife writing team, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. Besides placing a full dozen stories (including the acknowledged classic "Vintage Season") into various magazines of the day, the pair also succeeded in having published three short novels in those same pulps. The first, "The Fairy Chessmen," which was released in the January and February issues of "Astounding Science-Fiction," was a remarkable combination of hardheaded modernist sci-fi and almost hallucinatory reality twists. "Valley of the Flame," from the March issue of "Startling Stories," was an exciting meld of jungle adventure, Haggardian lost-world story and unique fantasy. And that summer, in "Startling Stories" again, the team came out with "The Dark World," a work that is pretty much a "hard" fantasy with some slight scientific leavening. In this one, the American flier Edward Bond is whisked from the Pacific theatre during WW2 and transported to the eponymous Dark World, an alternate Earth that has diverged from its parent in space as well as time. His counterpart on the Dark World, Ganelon, head of a coven of mutated overlords who are busy keeping that realm subjugated, is sent to our Earth with Bond's memories. The book's plot is difficult to synopsize, and gets a bit complicated when Ganelon is brought back to the Dark World sometime later, his body now housing two distinct minds and personalities. Thus, the understandably mixed-up warlock can't quite decide whether or not to help his fellow "Covenanters" wipe out the forest-dwelling rebels, or join those rebels and destroy the Coven, not to mention the dreaded, sacrifice-demanding entity known as Llyr. Though called the Coven, Ganelon's fellows number only four, and include Medea, a beautiful vampire who feeds on life energies; Matholch, a lycanthrope; Edeyrn, a cowled, childlike personage whose power the authors choose not to reveal until the novel's end; and Ghast Rhymi, an ancient magus whose origin really did surprise this reader. Peopled with colorful characters as it is, and featuring a nicely involved plot and ample scenes of battle, sacrifice, magic and spectacle, this little book (the whole thing runs to a mere 126 pages) really does please. That small scientific admixture that I mentioned earlier takes the form of rational explanations for the vampire, werewolf and Edeyrn phenomena; these explanations, while not exactly deep or technical, do tend to make the fantastic characters on display here slightly more, well, credible. But for the most part, "The Dark World" is a somber fantasy, and a darn good one, at that. Not for nothing was it selected for inclusion (as was "Valley of the Flame") in James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock's excellent overview volume "Fantasy: The 100 Best Books." "I consider the work of Henry Kuttner to be the finest science fantasy ever written," says Marion Zimmer Bradley in a blurb on the front cover of the 1965 Ace paperback (pictured above, and with a cover price of 40 cents) that I just finished, and readers of "The Dark World" will probably not feel inclined to give her argument.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Good Ideas, Underdeveloped By Mel Odom The Dark World by Henry Kuttner is a return, sort of, to the old sword and planet adventures written in science fiction for a number of years. To me, the genre had its beginnings in Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars novels.Edward Bond, the main character, has memories running around in his head of another place and time, and is constantly restless as a result. He's a veteran of World War II, and the book is set a few years after that. He keeps hearing a silent call that he eventually answers and ends up in a place called the Dark World.Only there's a surprise. Edward Bond isn't really Edward Bond. He's a man named Ganelon who was one of the most villainous people in this world. His evil legacy is exactly why he was banished to Earth. This is a pretty novel idea, actually, and I was set up for a real tour de force.Unfortunately, the novel never quite lives up to that promise. Back in the day (1946) the story probably lives up to a lot of readers' expectations, especially with the curve thrown in. However, I wanted more world/character development, more direct action, and less narration.Kuttner's idea of alternate worlds wasn't anything new in its day, but it was a whole lot newer than it is today. String theory hadn't even been fleshed out (didn't actually hit its peak until the 1990s), so this is progressive thinking for those days. The idea that the vampire and werewolf were mutants was probably new back then, and Kuttner does an okay job of trying to flesh that out.Elements of quest fantasy stories stick out in this novel as well and kind of rock the boat overall. It was a diverting, quick read and allowed me to remember other series I read by Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley (Darkover) that came along shortly thereafter.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good story, terrible OCR By leszek jaszczak Pros: Fun novella.Cons: The book is otherwise full of errors, page numbers mixed into the text. No proofreading. No annotations.
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