For The Crown And The Dragon [Paperback]

Stephen Hunt (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Green Nebula (1970)
• ASIN: B000PD6H68
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,933,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stephen Hunt is a fantasy, science fiction, crime and thriller author who lives in Spain and the UK. He is best known for his best-selling Jackelian series of novels from HarperCollins, also the publisher of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in the UK.

The Jackelian world is a fantasy adventure set in a far-future Earth where the passage of time has erased almost all memory of our current world from history. Electricity is now unreliable and classed as a dark power, with many of the nations of the world existing at a Victorian level of development and relying on steam-power, mechanical nanotechnology and biotechnology to survive and prosper.

It is a world of strange creatures, flashing blades, steammen servants, airship battles and high adventure.

Each novel is written as a stand-alone work, but share the same world and many of the same characters who criss-cross between the novels (a technique shared with fellow British fantasy author Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series).

Foreign language and international editions of the six novels of the Jackelian series have been sold to Tor Books (USA), Albin Michel (France), Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany), Enterbrain Manga and Anime (Japan), Edições Saída de Emergência (Portugal), Paidós (Spain), AST (Russia), and the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House (China).

Stephen maintains his own web site over at www.StephenHunt.net and when he is not writing, he can be found indulging in such interests as cooking, gardening, collecting comic-books, and building his collections of genre novels.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Half a story (literally), February 23, 2011

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This review is from: For The Crown And The Dragon (Paperback)

This Stephen Hunt novel (only available used) is a great romp, enormously fun to read, but ends literally in mid-story, with an advertisement for the next book, "The Fortress In the Frost". That sequel was never published, although, according to the interview at [...], it was completed. Given that, I really felt I couldn't give this story more than three stars... but it's a heck of a three star book, among my favorites of his work.

It's basically a picaresque fantasy novel set in an alternate medieval world: the background story is that a corrupt Roman emperor's magic changed the world. It's humorous and fast paced, altogether enjoyable until you realize that absolutely none of the plot lines will be resolved.

Here's hoping that it comes back into print and that he publishes the end of the story.