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Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ☆ Lester del Rey Lester del Rey ☆ 6 Download Characters Æ Day of the Giants 106 The dead about a hundred feet up in the airThen on his way to find his madcap twin Leif met the stranger who knew his name and who spoke of the Fimbulwinter already upon us Fimbulwinter The dreadful winter that in Norse mythology preceded Ragnarok the final war between t. I read this last night as a break from reading Henry Green It s short and sweet though the mad action of the conclusionand even before is a bit confusing at times The name Lester del Rey is well known among sci fi enthusiasts particularly those of a certain agelike me This book is Lester s re imagining of Ragnarok as if the Gods in Asgard and the Frost Giants we actually aliens linked to Earth via a Rainbow Bridgeor something A couple of Earth twinsScandinavian of course get involved as the GodsThor etc seem to reuire their help There s plenty that s not really explained very clearly but it was a lot of fun to read Ironic that I inadvertently selected a Norse mythologysci fi tale shortly after reading TWO books about the Vikings The romantic stuff is a bit weird and off putting This is reminiscent of The World of Tiers More of that anachronistic smoking behavior Oh yeah there is a strong suggestion that Heimdallr is a traitor but then this thread is abruptly and totally dropped Makes no sense The cover art seems to have very little to do with what s inside There are NO flying saucers in the story275 rounds up to 3
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Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ☆ Lester del Rey Lester del Rey ☆ 6 Download Characters Æ Day of the Giants 106 He gods and the giants Fimbulwinter which presaged the Day of the GiantsLeif Svensen and his brother were caught up in the destinies of a real but alien world For if the giants triumphed they would overrun Earth; and if the Aesir the gods won Earth would be their footsto. The cover art was chosen inappropriately There are no flying saucersThere is no alien invasion either unless the residents of Asgard and Valhalla are to be considered aliensPoor poor pigeonholed master del ReyNice apocalypse tale though good for an evening s unwind Shrewsbury Station Just After Six up in the destinies of a real but alien world For if the giants triumphed they would overrun Earth; and if the Aesir the gods won Earth would be their footsto. The cover art was chosen inappropriately There are no flying saucersThere is no alien invasion either Celtic Christian Spirituality: An Anthology of Medieval and Modern Sources unless the residents of Asgard and Valhalla are to be considered aliensPoor poor pigeonholed master del ReyNice apocalypse tale though good for an evening s Forex Trading Millionaire unwind
Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ☆ Lester del Rey
Free read ´ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ☆ Lester del Rey Lester del Rey ☆ 6 Download Characters Æ Day of the Giants 106 Battle of the giants Leif Svensen's neighbor come to warn him that the farmers were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before Big blonde woman on a white horse singing loud enough to raise. I ve really been enjoying Lester Del Rey s fiction lately He s a great writer with great characters and very original ideas Day of the Giants is a short novel and is borderline fantasyscience fiction in that the fantasy elements are explained with intentionally vague pseudo science or at least the intimation that there is some sort of scientific explanation that the narrator simply doesn t understand although one might conclude the narrator s rationalism simply deludes him into this In any event the book s cover with flying saucers prominently depicted in front of shadowy giants helps obscure whether this will be pure science fiction or science fantasy and Del Rey is not terribly concerned about such distinctionsIi is tempting to compare it to Poul Anderson s Norse fantasies although Anderson is much faithful to the essential doom and gloom of Norse mythology Del Rey s story is a very American re imagining of the Norse myth of Ragnarok I call it an American version of the myth because Del Rey s narrator struggles with the pessimism and barbarism of the Norse mythos and uses ingenuity and optimism to overturn the prophesies of doom It s rather like stitching a happy ending onto the epic of Gilgamesh and yet somehow it works It shouldn t of course It is a travesty But a fun one