Book description
In the great battle which had returned control of Morvannec, the
legendary city, to mankind, Elof the Smith had saved Kara, his love,
from the immortal Power which ruled her. But in the seven years since,
the Smith has grown fearful that Kara, herself no mortal, will one day
leave him. In his fear, Elof makes the mistake of drawing on his own
uncanny powers to bind Kara closer to him; he only succeeds in driving
her away.
Haunted, guilt-ridden, Elof can do nothing but follow his love
eastwards, across the Seas of Sunrise, towards the city of Kerys in
which Kermorvan of Kerbryhaine's people had originated. In the
myth-filled lands of the East, where the Powers of the Ice contemplate
the total extinction of life, Elof must face his past, his future and
his destiny. Michael Scott Rohan (1951 - )
Michael Scott Rohan, born in Edinburgh in 1951, writes both fantasy and
science fiction. Whilst studying law at Oxford, Rohan joined the SF
group and met the president, Allan J Scott, who started him writing for
the group's semi-professional magazine SFinx
alongside names such as Robert Holdstock and Ian Watson. His first
novel, Run to the Stars
, was published in 1983 and he collaborated with Allan J Scott on The
Hammer and the Cross
, a non-fiction account of how Christianity arrived in Viking lands.
Rohan is best known for his acclaimed The Winter of the World
sequence, an epic fantasy set in and ice-bound world.
