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    The Dragon and the Unicorn
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    The Dragon and the Unicorn

    By A. A. Attanasio

    3.5/5

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    In this epic retelling of Arthurian legend, all the core elements appear, chronicling Vortigern's defeat of the Saxons, the ascendancy of Theodosius Aurelianus (Uther Pendragon), the birth of Arthur and eventually Merlin's placing of the sword in the stone. But in Attanasio's vibrantly imagined world, the legends of northern Europe acquire their magical perspective from modern physics: Yggdrasil the Storm Tree fills the heavens as the magnetic field of the planet - the gods exist as electrostatic beings - and Merlin uses his humanity to disguise his true identity as a 'demon,' a hyperspatial mind created spontaneously out of chaos and known among thermodynamic theorists as a Boltzmann Brain. An encounter with a unicorn, an interplanetary being of light, brings Merlinus to Ygrane, queen of the Celts, and she sets him a task to find her king, a man seen in vision and fated to be her true love. Merlinus-Lailoken seeks and finds him: Theodosius, a stable worker. But Ygrane has commanded the demon-wizard to bring her a king, so Merlinus sets to work making one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA. A. Attanasio
    Release dateMay 29, 2011
    ISBN9780983608431
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    • 4/5
      The writing was impressively rich. I was shocked that someone can write in the present tense, mostly, and still sound good (if you have ever written and have tried the idea of writing in the present tense, you'll know what I mean. It's not an easy feat.) The vocabulary is very rich. The stories of different beings (demons, gods, the dragon, the unicorn, the humans...) are all woven together slowly and carefully. I was worried I would feel overwhelmed with so many characters, but somehow the author managed to keep it all together. Some parts, like most fantasy, are too emotional, but I suppose that comes with the genre. The inclusion of electromagnetics in the idea behind the different kinds of energies (gods versus humans, for example) is interesting. What is perhaps most interesting is the center role religion plays in the whole story, which is accurate of the times and politics in general. The emergence of a new religion and the reshaping of the pagan soils is what's a foot, and the story never loses sight of this reality. Overall, an impressive piece of work.
    • 5/5
      This is a very different kind of King Arthur story. Brilliant! I love the fact that Attanasio uses science to explain fantasy.