The Warrior Who Carried Life

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The Warrior Who Carried Life is a fantasy novel novel by Canadian writer Geoff Ryman, published in 1985. [1]

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Plot summary

It is the story of Cara, who learns witchcraft to get revenge on the Galu. [2]

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Warrior Who Carried Life for White Dwarf #66, and stated that "For the climax Ryman goes for broke; a sad and gentle coda saves his theme from the common fault of being too big to care about. There are glitches (the appalling poetry of the Secret Rose crashes to I earth when verbalized as 'Humanity was in danger of being replaced'), but Ryman is an author to watch." [2]

Colin Greenland reviewed The Warrior Who Carried Life for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Ryman draws on folklore other authors have forgotten, to create a dark fantasy at once familiar and deeply strange. Cara's quest through hell for vengeance on inhuman invaders has the clarity and conviction of a good nightmare. Geoff Ryman is the most gifted of new British fantasy writers by far." [3]

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References

  1. "Title: The Warrior Who Carried Life". isfdb.org.
  2. 1 2 Langford, Dave (June 1985). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf . No. 66. Games Workshop. p. 8.
  3. Greenland, Colin (June 1985). "Fantasy Media". Imagine (review) (27). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd.: 47.
  4. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1