Forever After
by Roger Zelazny (Editor)
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The War Against Evil Has Been Won!In this world the millennial battle against the forces of evil has just been won, and all the hard-working heroes are just about to start living very happily Forever After.
But first, you see, there's this one little problem.
To win the aforementioned War Against Evil, four mantic objects of great power had been summoned forth from dark recesses in which they had lain secreted for a thousand year—since, in fact, the last Great War Against Evil. But there show more was a reason these objects had been buried so long ago: if they are left in the open for any length of time the forces that emanate start to combine—and Bad Things start to happen. Dinosaurs come to battle dragons, and 747s eclipse the Moon—and that's just for starters. So it is that our heroes must leave hearth and home to go upon their four separate anti-quests to bury for another thousand years the powers that saved the world. And you can join them—Forever After. . .
With Robert Asprin, David Drake, Jane Lindskold & Mike Stackpole.
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This is one of the better books of this type I've read in awhile - tight writing, an interesting premise, its funny, but not over the top. A few spots are groan worthy. But, its fun for what it is, a story about why magical objects are always in far away places. Its not a great literary masterpiece, but it does fill a certain niche of 1980 fantasy nostalgia that I read too much of as a kid.
Shared-world fantasy anthology edited and framed by Roger Zelazny, where heroes who just won a great war against evil discover that the powerful magical artifacts used to win are now causing chaotic, reality-bending problems, forcing them on new quests to re-bury the artifacts before the world unravels, with stories by Zelazny and authors: Robert Asprin, David Drake, Jane Lindskold, and Mike Stackpole.
The premise involves a post-victory setting where the happily ever after is interrupted by magical backlash, mixing high fantasy with modern elements, dinosaurs and 747s appearing, as heroes must fix what they broke.
The premise involves a post-victory setting where the happily ever after is interrupted by magical backlash, mixing high fantasy with modern elements, dinosaurs and 747s appearing, as heroes must fix what they broke.
I love Zelazny's books, but this was, frankly, a bit silly.
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Roger Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio on May 13, 1937. After receiving a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University and a M.A. from Columbia University, he began publishing science fiction stories in 1962. He received six Hugo awards, three Nebula awards including one in 1966 for And Call Me Conrad and 2 Locus awards. He died of kidney failure show more secondary to colorectal cancer on June 14, 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1995
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