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Fred Lerner

Autor von Die Insel Literaria. Fantasy.

7+ Werke 1,365 Mitglieder 29 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 1 Lesern

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Fred Lerner holds degrees in history and library science from Columbia University, where he received his doctorate. He has also written widely on contemporary science fiction and lives in Vermont with his wife, an elementary school teacher, and teenage daughter.

Beinhaltet den Namen: Frederick Andrew Lerner

Bildnachweis: Uncredited photo from author page at Amazon.com.

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Die Insel Literaria. Fantasy. (1949) — Herausgeber — 1,020 Exemplare
Libraries through the ages (1999) 22 Exemplare
A Bookman's Fantasy (1995) 14 Exemplare
A Silverlock Companion (1988) 12 Exemplare
Rosetta Stone 1 Exemplar

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Year's Best SF 5 (2000) — Mitwirkender — 255 Exemplare

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A man who survives a shipwreck is saved by someone who becomes his guide through the Commonwealth of Letters, where they wash ashore and where they encounter all sorts of characters from mythology and literature.
Meh. Interesting idea, but not carried out very well. The main character is in no way likable, nor are many of the others. And I think the interpretation of the literary and mythological nods could have been more clever/inventive, too.
 
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electrascaife | 19 weitere Rezensionen | May 21, 2023 |
Outrageous fantasy in which the protagonist nearly gets killed about a hundred times in about a hundred different scrapes, assisted or antagonized by every hero or every villain of every fantastic yarn that ever blew your mind or knocked you out of your chair or set your house on fire or killed your dog and ate your cat. Pack a sword or a bazooka with you whenever you have to get up to eat or use the john. You never know who or what is going to jump you when you leave the safety of your favorite chair. Duck! you sucker! You're going to like this book. You might even read it twice or maybe seven times! Everybody else does. NOBODY doesn't read Silverlock!… (mehr)
 
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NathanielPoe | 19 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 3, 2019 |
One for my Year of Nostalgic Rereads, I've not read this since 1981 when I first came across it, and it is so much better to read in the age of the internet. I didn't get most of the references the first time (and still didn't get some even with the aid of other peoples' work), but I've got a few more years behind me and a broader reading experience. I enjoyed the first 300 pages well enough and then hit a wall, which stalled me for almost two months. I finally powered through this past weekend and finished tonight. It's still a great read but I can't give it five stars when I wasn't enthralled the who way through.

Myers wove a wonderful tale, and must have been very well read to do so.
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Razinha | 19 weitere Rezensionen | May 23, 2017 |
A charming fantasy novel where every character is weirdly familiar and yet when they get mixed up together they become more human - and the story more strange.
 
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dbsovereign | 19 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 26, 2016 |

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