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Celtika: Book I Of The Merlin Codex - Robert Holdstock


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Celtika: Book I Of The Merlin Codex - Robert Holdstock

 
Description: ISBN 0575079738 / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Author: Robert Holdstock / Paperback / 336 Pages / Book is published 2007-01-11 by Gollancz

Newest Review: ... The Golden Fleece is located in a "barbarian" land called Colchis which is on the East side of the Black Sea. When ... more

 ... Jason arrives Medea, the daughter of the King, falls in love with him (with the help of Eros) and she decides to betray her family and land to help him get the fleece. After taming the bulls, ploughing the field of Ares and sewing the dragons teeth Jason is still denied the fleece. Medea takes him to it in secret, lulls the dragon to sleep with potions (although in many adaptions Jason infact kills the dragon himself [in Harryhausen it is a Hydra]) and they escape with the fleece. Now this is where many of th...more

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Premium Review Celtika: Book I Of The Merlin Codex - Robert Holdstock: Jason meets Arthur (1294 words)
by - written on 27/01/09 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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Last Semester I studied a module called Jason and the Argonauts for my university course. For the exam we needed to have read/seen at least three versions of the myth which is why I chose to read Celtika. We had talked about the trilogy of the Merlin Codex in our lectures and I was intrigued enough to choose to buy it and try and read it in a rushed two days before my exam. (I'm not that organised lol) Celtika is written by Robert Holdstock, a british author born in the late 1940's. He won the world Fantasy Award for Best Novel (Mythago Wood) in 1985. The Merlin Codex trilogy were written between 2001 and 2007. At this point you may be a little ...  Read the complete review

 

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