Heroic fantasy paperback book from the late sixties or very early seventies. Cover has a muscular warrior with a large spike studded morning star where his right hand should be (possibly Jeff Jones or Frazetta artwork) Okay here goes, a kingdom overthrown by evil baron. The king is slain and the baron has had the 9-10 year old heir to the thrones right/sword hand cut off to discourage him from coming back later to retake the throne by force. The old king’s loyal court mage spirits the prince away from the castle to a place of safety. Using powerful ,dark magic the sorcerer sends the one handed boy into another dimension/hell whatever. In this land warriors from all times past battle endlessly (like the Norse heaven Valhalla). Time passes much more quickly there and in just a short while in the princes own world in the battle land he grows to manhood as a fierce warrior who’s stump has been fitted with a golden mace (a morning star, I also believe that might have something to do with the title). The mage brings the magically aged prince back to his own world and sets him on his way to reclaim the throne that is rightfully his. Really enjoyed reading this book and would like to find a copy to supplement my rereads of my teen years.
pigstaub wrote: > Heroic fantasy paperback book from the late sixties or very early > seventies. Cover has a muscular warrior with a large spike studded > morning star where his right hand should be (possibly Jeff Jones or > Frazetta artwork) Okay here goes, a kingdom overthrown by evil baron. > The king is slain and the baron has had the 9-10 year old heir to the > thrones right/sword hand cut off to discourage him from coming back > later to retake the throne by force. The old king’s loyal court mage > spirits the prince away from the castle to a place of safety. Using > powerful ,dark magic the sorcerer sends the one handed boy into > another dimension/hell whatever. In this land warriors from all times > past battle endlessly (like the Norse heaven Valhalla). Time passes > much more quickly there and in just a short while in the princes own > world in the battle land he grows to manhood as a fierce warrior who’s > stump has been fitted with a golden mace (a morning star, I also > believe that might have something to do with the title). The mage > brings the magically aged prince back to his own world and sets him on > his way to reclaim the throne that is rightfully his. Really enjoyed > reading this book and would like to find a copy to supplement my > rereads of my teen years.
It might be something called _Prince of Morningstar_, or something like that. I vaguely recall that, but it apparently isn't in my collection. Try googling on that.
Solved! I got a response on a different site. I found a site that showed the cover and it is the book. The Sword of Morning Star by Richard Meade. Thank you So much i_kissthesky!
Edit your post: Solved! I got a response on a different site. I found a site that showed the cover and it is the book. The Sword of Morning Star by Richard Meade. Thank you So much i_kissthesky!
>Heroic fantasy paperback book from the late sixties or very early >seventies. Cover has a muscular warrior with a large spike studded >morning star where his right hand should be (possibly Jeff Jones or >Frazetta artwork) Okay here goes, a kingdom overthrown by evil baron. >The king is slain and the baron has had the 9-10 year old heir to the >thrones right/sword hand cut off to discourage him from coming back >later to retake the throne by force. The old king’s loyal court mage >spirits the prince away from the castle to a place of safety. Using >powerful ,dark magic the sorcerer sends the one handed boy into >another dimension/hell whatever. In this land warriors from all times >past battle endlessly (like the Norse heaven Valhalla). Time passes >much more quickly there and in just a short while in the princes own >world in the battle land he grows to manhood as a fierce warrior who’s >stump has been fitted with a golden mace (a morning star, I also >believe that might have something to do with the title). The mage >brings the magically aged prince back to his own world and sets him on >his way to reclaim the throne that is rightfully his. Really enjoyed >reading this book and would like to find a copy to supplement my >rereads of my teen years.
Sword of Marningstar by 'Richard Meade'. There was a sequel (not as good) titled Exile's Quest.
Richard Meade was a pen-name for Ben Haas.
-- I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Bene Gesserit)
:: I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone :: else think what I thought when I read that?
: Of course not. In fact, no one else has a clue what you even mean.
It's an allusion to Mike Resnick's "Soothsayer" series, right?
It was a time of Giants. [...] There was Backbreaker Ben Ami, who wrestled aliens for money and killed men for pleasure. There was the Marquis of Queensbury, who fought by no rules at all, and the White Knight, albino killer of fifty men, and Sally the Blade, and the Forever Kid, who reached the age of nineteen and just stopped growing for the next two centuries, and Catastrophe Baker, who made whole planets shake beneath his feet, and the exotic Pearl of Maracaibo, and the Scarlet Queen, whose sins were condemned by every race in the galaxy, and Father Christmas, and the One-Armed Bandit with his deadly prosthetic arm, and the Earth Mother, and Lizard Malloy, and the deceptively mild-mannered Cemetary Smith. Giants all.
<SpamMeHardAndCallMe...@hotmail.com> wrote: > BillGill <billne...@cox.net> wrote in news:jY%gk.6331$CY7.3743 > @newsfe06.iad:
> > One handed fantasy
> I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone else think > what I thought when I read that?
> (One handed fantasy REVENGE would be...yiiaaaa, I don't even want to know! > ;-)
> Yours apologetically, and definitely most juvenilely,
> Spider J.
Come on now, your showing you learned to type in one of those lolita chat rooms. (heh) One handed midnight typing.....a skill that has broken up many a marriage.
pigstaub <pigst...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:d42db8f0-1892-4eef-b2ed- 5a80f5dc9...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
> Come on now, your showing you learned to type in one of those lolita > chat rooms.
Those are great. You on one end, and a cop eating Krispy Kremes, belching, and pretending to be a 12 year old girl on the other. You, of course, are pretending to be a pedophile because you have a thing for sedentary, middle- aged cops.
