The Merlin mystique and the fascinating rivalry of Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots, underpins this entertaining blend of fantasy and history, which invites comparison with Mary Stewart and Marion Zimmer Bradley. In this third installment (after...
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Irene Radford, Author . DAW $24.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0078-1
In the conclusion to her series devoted to Merlin's descendants (Guardian of the Vision, etc.), Radford's adroit mix of dark fantasy and Elizabethan politics, involving the complicated rivalries among the English, Scottish, French and...
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Irene Radford, Author . DAW $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0178-8
Set in the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War, Radford's swashbuckling fifth book in her Merlin's Descendants series (after 2003's Guardian of the Promise
) focuses on Georgina "Georgie" Kirkwood, newly appointed Knight...
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Irene Radford, Author Daw Books $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-88677-826-2
The protagonist of this first novel in a fantasy series of the tales of King Arthur is Arylwren, nicknamed Wren, daughter of Myrddin Emrys, The Merlin, and Deirdre, high priestess of the Druids. Raised among her father's wards, Wren falls in love...
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Irene Radford. DAW, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0670-7
In this flimsy paranormal romance, Thistle Down, a pixie exiled into a human body, rejoins her onetime playmate, Dusty Carrick, now in her mid-20s. Thistle inflicts pixie chaos on Dusty, her older brother, and their friend Chase, making them face...
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Irene Radford. DAW, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0794-0
Radford returns to the fantasy setting of her Dragon Nimbus series with this middling tale of political intrigue and troubled young wizards. The magicians of cod-medieval Coronnan depend on dragons like the matriarch, Shayla, for their power. Kindly
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