Title: alien crash landing
Product review: No one remarked on this one yet: What gave me the shivers is the gradually revealed SF background in this fantasy setting. Although it is more hinted at than fully described, the idea of creating a fantasy environment with an ancient alien crash landing is gorgeous! And its a black black scenario that Bakker creates: Sorcery against genetical engineering, absolute hostile behaviour of the alien arrivals (instead of "here's how to build a warp-drive works, folks"), the near elimination of the Non-Men (Tolkien's elves lent to these) by applying alien gen-tech. As said: You don't find it as part of the main plot, but it is all there, mostly in the very well made glossary, the Sagas and Seswata's dreamsApart from that: I just love sorcerers that wield the power of tactical nuke warheads in battle!
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