THE CLASSIC FANTASY SERIES FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN! At the height of the Vietnam War, Jon Dark is a helicopter pilot for the International Red Cross, flying numerous rescue missions...until the day his helicopter crashes in the Cambodian jungles. Cut off from American troops, he searches for a way out, only to find a lost city -- and the gateway to another world. Stepping through the portal, he arrives on Callisto -- a savage, hostile world terrorized by insect-men and the infamous Sky Pirates of Zanadar. It is a world of black and crimson jungles where Jon Dark -- now known as Jandar -- finds not only chilling dangers awaiting him, but also the love of a beautiful princess.
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The return of a fantasy great.,
This review is from: Callisto Volume 1 (The Classic Science Fiction Fantasy Series) (Paperback)
In the 1970s one of the foremost writers of action packed heroic fantasy was Lin Carter. This book collects the first two volumes of what was perhaps Carter's best series. The Jandar of Callisto books were written very much in the tradition of the John Carter of Mars novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, but without Burroughs' semi victorian language. I read the Callisto books when I was a kid and still find them to be a lot of fun. This book is full of pageantry, romance and swordplay. Callisto, or Thanator as the natives call it, is a wondrous world of flying ships and dense jungles teeming with danger. Anyone who enjoys a fast paced adventure story set on an exotic alien world should definitely give Callisto a try. In addition to his writing, Lin Carter was one of the most influential editors of fantasy fiction. He is remembered today primarily for getting many classics of the genre back into print. But Carter could spin a wonderful yarn, and it's great to see his work available again for new readers to discover.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Callisto Volume 1 (The Classic Science Fiction Fantasy Series) (Paperback)
Lin Carter, of course, didn't write this book; he was merely the editor, transcribing the peculiar parchment delivered from overseas and lands unknown. As an editor, he contributes numerous footnotes and appendixes that help the reader's understanding of this weird alternate-universe Callisto, whose sky is golden during the day, and at night filled with the great orb of Jupiter and its racing moons. If this document were a piece of fiction, one could say it was derivative of Burrough's Barsoom; but there is a verisimilitude to these memoirs of the downed pilot John Dark, who stumbles upon a lost city in Cambodia and is transported to Callisto (called Thanator by the natives). His adventures are vivid and various, full of strange creatures, swordplay, mind control, Romance, super science; perhaps they can only be appreciated by an eleven-year-old boy who has yet to read the Burroughs books, and who wishes to encounter a planetary romance, for once, as it *really* happened. I have always remembered Koja, the insectoid Yathoon warrior; Darloona, the beautiful real-life Dejah Thoris; grizzled Lukor the master swordsman; the nefarious Sky Pirates in their floating galleons, the terrible Mind Wizards; and of course the wise Lankar, who is none other than Lin Carter himself, transported to Callisto in Book Six (the locals have difficulty with complex Earth names; John Dark becomes Jandar, Lin Carter, Lankar). My only regret in this neccessary reissue is the cover, which is grim and dark, and surely depicts nothing on Callisto. The original Dell covers, by Vincent DiFate, were both vividly colorful, pulpish and, of course, accurate.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lin Carter was the best!,
By John T. Kramer (Skokie, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Callisto Volume 1 (The Classic Science Fiction Fantasy Series) (Paperback)
I first read the Calisto series twenty-five years ago when I was a teen ager. I am currently re-reading the books to my twelve year old son (he's a remarkably good reader, but he still loves to be read to --who doesn't) and am delighted to say that he is as enthralled by the adventures of Jonathan Andrew Dark as I was so long ago. These books aren't high art or particuarly thought provoking, but if you allow yourself to suspend your disbelief a bit, the pay off these books will give you is well worth the effort. A princess to be rescued and a kingdom to be won! Who could ask for more from a read.
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