Outline:- In the centuries before his involvement with Arthur; Merlin is immortal; and almost young. He befriends Jason; seeker of the Golden Fleece; and his enchantress wife; Medea. Through Greece; Finland and other lands; to England; the skein of Merlin`s tale leads to heroism; treachery and magic. In the centuries before his involvement with Arthur; Merlin is immortal; and almost young. He befriends Jason; seeker of the Golden Fleece; and his enchantress wife; Medea. Through Greece; Finland and other lands; to England; the skein of Merlin`s tale leads to heroism; treachery and magic. --> Genre: Fantasy General-> the publisher of this HARDBACK book is Simon & Schuster The date of this copy is 2001 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Merlin Codex Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.

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Title

Celtika The first book in the Merlin Codex series

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

0684860368

ISBN 13

9780684860367

Binding

Hardback

Edition

Standard.

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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Book

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In the centuries before his involvement with Arthur, Merlin is immortal, and almost young. He befriends Jason, seeker of the Golden Fleece, and his enchantress wife, Medea. Through Greece, Finland and other lands, to England, the skein of Merlin's tale leads to heroism, treachery and magic.

Review

On the evidence of this ambitious beginning to a new series, Robert Holdstock is attempting to underpin virtually everything he has written since the British Science Fiction Award-winning Mythago Wood, simultaneously weaving together the roots of all Western mythology.

Holdstock's Merlin is near immortal, and as the story opens has already walked the world for millennia, an alienated narrator; an archetype it is difficult to empathise with. Occasionally he does show human warmth:

I looked at her face, so beautiful despite the greed of Time, her hair still like polished copper; into her eyes, so lovely, so clever; her breath like summer fruit; our fingers intertwined briefly. A beauty that had not faded; lost in time; almost untouchable.

Long before Arthur, Merlin has become deeply involved with Jason, The Argonauts and the legendary cycle of betrayal and bloodshed between Jason and Medea. Spinning this saga into a surreal epic across centuries, Holdstock adds the quest of the young Celtic King Urtha to avenge his wife and children, and the epic march to the Oracle of Delphi of the greatest army the world has ever seen.

Written with all Holdstock's usual skill, Celtika is a strange, convoluted, intricately plotted book. Weaving so much mythology and history into one fabric results in a distant quality akin to Tolkien's The Silmarillion, producing fantasy of particular subtlety and intelligence. While knowledge of the author's previous books is not required, those who have read them will find extra resonance in exploring these austerely magical adventures from the archetype's point-of-view. --Gary S. Dalkin

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