Against the Horde (Delavan, Wisconsin: New Infinities Productions, 1988).Legend (London: Century Publishing, 1984).The David Gemmell Legend Award, for fantasy novels in the spirit of Gemmell's, was first presented in 2009. The Dying Earth setting (see Far Future) is well achieved there is Time Travel between Atlantis and its future ESP, Genetic Engineering and Immortality are other themes. The middle two volumes, which have Arthurian resonances, are set in Britain during and after the Roman occupation, but the framing works are set in a Ruined-Earth venue 300 years after Earth's axis has been tilted by an Immanuel Velikovsky-style Disaster echoes of Erich von Däniken's Pseudoscience books also abound. The components of the series are linked by the Sipstrassi stones of healing and/or destruction, whose source is Atlantis. His inclusion in this encyclopedia is largely due to his second, Science Fantasy series, the Sipstrassi sequence comprising, Wolf in Shadow ( 1987 vt The Jerusalem Man 1988), Ghost King ( 1988), Last Sword of Power ( 1988) and The Last Guardian ( 1989), all four being assembled as Stones of Power: The Sipstrassi Omnibus (omni 1992).
These were posthumously well-received.Īs a fantasy author, Gemmell was accomplished and tough-minded, and he interestingly varied (but not too much) stereotypical generic situations. Other works of primarily fantasy interest include Knights of Dark Renown ( 1989), featuring Parallel Worlds the Macedon sequence of historical fantasies set in an Alternate-History Greece at the time of Alexander, comprising Lion of Macedon ( 1990) and Dark Prince ( 1991), in the second of which Aristotle (who else?) has working knowledge of the secret of portals through time and space that lead to parallel worlds Morningstar ( 1992), which introduces a bard and an ambiguous hero faced with necromancy and Vampyre Kings Bloodstone ( 1994) and an unfinished sequence of stories retelling the Trojan War, Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow ( 2005) and Troy: Shield of Thunder ( 2006). (1948-2006) UK journalist and editor, and then full-time author, primarily of Heroic Fantasy, most famous for his first (and long-lived) Fantasy series, the Drenai Saga, beginning with Legend ( 1984 vt Against the Horde 1988) and finishing with Hero in the Shadows ( 2000 vt Hero in the Shadows: Waylander the Slayer Stalks an Ancient Evil 2000), and built around the stress-darkened indomitable 60-year-old warrior Druss for other series – including the Skilgannon the Damned books, which are related to Drenai the Hawk Queen books and Tales of the Rigante – see Checklist (but see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy for fuller coverage).
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