Banewreaker
2004 novel by Jacqueline Carey
0-7653-0521-6Dewey Decimal
Banewreaker is a fantasy novel by Jacqueline Carey. It is Carey's fourth novel and the first in The Sundering series. Banewreaker is set in Urulat, a world based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and many of the plot points mirror The Lord of the Rings.
Influences
Carey has acknowledged that the book is based around Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as the classical tragedy form, reversing the good versus evil scheme of Tolkien by telling the story as an "epic tragedy" from the perspective of the characters who are perceived by most of Urulat as "evil". Carey stated that "it departs from convention in one significant way, which is that it's sympathetic to the losing side, and over the course of the two volumes, the story emerges as one long, colossal tragedy."[1] The novel begins with a quote from John Milton's "Paradise Lost".
References
- ^ On the Spot at BookSpotCentral - Jacqueline Carey interview, BookSpotCentral, July 26, 2005
External links
- Banewreaker title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Works by Jacqueline Carey
| Phèdre Trilogy |
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| Imriel Trilogy |
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| Moirin Trilogy |
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- Banewreaker (2004)
- Godslayer (2005)
- Santa Olivia (2009)
- Saints Astray (2011)
- Dark Currents (2012)
- Autumn Bones (2013)
- Poison Fruit (2014)
- Martyr of the Roses (2013)
- You and You Alone (2010)
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