The Unicorn Creed [Paperback]

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1983

In Song of Sorcery, Book 1 of Songs from the Seashell Archives, hearthwitch Maggie Brown met minstrel Colin Songsmith and a unicorn named Moonshine while saving both her sister and the kingdom. All in a quest’s work for a girl who can magically do anything she can convince her power is housework. To reward Maggie, the king makes her a princess, and therefore a good catch for the local noble bachelors. Only problem is, she doesn’t want to get married. She wants to be with Moonshine, whose Unicorn Creed, as he understands it, forbids him to consort with anyone except a chaste maiden. It’s rather a touchy situation, and so Princess Maggie abandons her crown and with Moonshine, she and Colin set out to see if they can find a loophole in Moonshine’s creed. Of course, in the process they have to try to save the land of Argonia again, this time from a were-man, a revolutionary nymph, a town’s worth of zombies, an ice worm and an evil wizard.
“Gentle humor, deft plotting and a fine light-handed prose style, all combine to make THE UNICORN CREED a pure delight.” --New York Daily News

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) (January 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553229397
• ISBN-13: 978-0553229394
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,353,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Altogether I've written and collaborated on 38 novels, 22 solo and 16 in collaboration with the fabulous Anne McCaffrey.
Among my solo novels is THE HEALER'S WAR, the 1989 Nebula Award winner for best novel, loosely based on my experiences as a nurse in Vietnam.
I have also written a traditional, though humorous, 4-book fantasy series, SONGS FROM THE SEASHELL ARCHIVES, a feminist Arabian Nights fantasy, two fantasies set in the Wild West and the Yukon Goldrush respectively, my obligatory science fiction writer's apocalypse book and the sequel, both set in Tibet, and three books about folk music and magic that made a big hit with the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives, which I blew up in the first book. Three of my books are about fairy godmothers, one is about Christmas and computers, one features Sir Walter Scott in a Victorian gothic mystery set in Edinburgh, and two are about Queen Cleopatra as the living "Past life" of two different women.
Just last week I released for the first time anywhere, a new e-book (available soon as Print on Demand as well), SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE. Spam is a cat whose mistress disappears suddenly, leaving him and his 14 feline housemates alone and soon to starve. When someone breaks into the house, Spam takes the opportunity to escape into the outside world, where he's actually never been before, to hunt for his human, or at least some other human to feed and care for him and his friends until their friend Darcy comes back. The more he hunts, the more he becomes sure that she is not going to be coming back on her own.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magic going wrong, A Creed Misunderstood, and a Revolution, June 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Unicorn Creed (Paperback)

The Unicorn Creed is a sequal to the Song of Sorcery. It is packed with Nymphs, Faeries, Orges, gypsies, wizards, and werewolves. Along with Maggie Brown, A witch/Princess of Argonia, Colin Songsmith the Royal Minsteral, and Moonshine the Unicorn in love with Maggie. This book is about maggie first trying to give back her crown, but ends up as a quest to find out the true meaning of the Unicorn Creed, then a rescue mission to save other Unicorns. This is a jam packed book full of suprises. Withe old and new Characters. I highly recomend this book

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A lost Unicorn, a virgin witch, and a would be hero., November 11, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Unicorn Creed (Paperback)

Continues the adventure started in Song of Sorcery. The Creed is important, but so is the interpretation in this story of feminism and love told in a medieval setting with a light overview of fairytale and rose colored glasses.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witches with Unicorns, May 15, 2001

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"arslan76" (Ankara, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Unicorn Creed (Paperback)

The story continued of a hearth witch and her unicorn, this is the second book of Elizabeth Ann Scarborough that I read. A young witch maiden sets out to save her baby cousin from a curse that will make her a liar, and a deeper plot which wants to rid the King whose throne she helped win in the first book of that burden. The story line is not outstanding, but I find the telling delightful. Ms. Scarborough is a wonderful tale-spinner, and there many small surprises in the book, like her relationship with the oh-so-correct unicorn, her friend and now-would-be lover bard, and some very nice twists. I liked it enough again :)