That Way Lies Camelot [Paperback]

Janny Wurts (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper Collins (1962)
• ASIN: B000M670C8
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

More About the Author

I value direct experience over virtual experience and research alone.
Most of the things I write about, I have done at one point in my life.
I find inspiration in the natural world, travel, insatiable curiosity, and in music.

I paint the covers and do all the interiors artwork and maps for my novels.

Experiences have included horse training and competitive riding, offshore sailing, Outward Bound, music gigs, and extensive amateur bagpiping competition, and a second career in oil painting and illustration.

One of my goals is to bring the vividness of these experiences to the readers on the pages of my stories.

For the past fifteen years, I've been happily married to Don Maitz, the artist of SF/Fantasy book cover and Captain Morgan Spiced rum fame.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy/SF short story writing as an art form, May 11, 1999

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This review is from: That Way Lies Camelot (Mass Market Paperback)

This collection of short stories is well written. Two of the recurring protagonists, the spaceship pilot and the elf huntress, seem to be characters to whom she couldn't give a whole novel. Their various adventures are self-contained, ironic, and quite entertaining. The real reason for buying this book is the last story: This Way Lies Camelot. I was moved to tears by its sheer power and beauty. In a very short space, Ms Wurts captures what heroism, struggle, sorrow, imagination, and magic all have in common: the thread of the human spirit. If you don't share this story with your children, after having introduced them previously to the Arthurian legends, their lives will be poorer for it. I have re read the story four times now, and it still makes me weep. Perhaps having a son and a dog makes me identify too closely to the characters. I will read it again soon.

3.0 out of 5 stars Camelot? I think not., October 30, 2010

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Laurel Vanblarcum (Waxahachie, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: That Way Lies Camelot (Mass Market Paperback)

Three stars for creativity. This is the first (and last) book I've read by this author. She's good at what she does, a bit overly prosy for me as I was not interested in the subject matter it took me days rather than hours to gnaw my way through the book. There are several sci-fi, feral elves, just plain fantasy as well as a modern day tear jerker (with the only passing reference to Camelot in the book). I was looking forward to a new take on the Arthurian legends and this collection couldn't be further from that; I'd call that false advertising but that's just me. There are strong female characters, men acting badly and some heroic if sorely put upon minors. One or two of the stories even had something as close as she apparently can bring herself to a happy ending. Obviously not my cup of tea especially considering my expectations but again well written and formulated.

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly good short-story collection, February 21, 2010

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R. Daniel Williams (China) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: That Way Lies Camelot (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a compilation of fantasy and science fiction short stories, although all of the stories are not stand-alone stories. There are two of the stories which contain 3 short stories each. Overall, this collection of stories is good, but a couple of the stories are just a titch dark, so I only gave this book 3 stars, because I'm one of those readers who always likes to have a "happy" ending.