I have much less of a reaction to that sort of thing now. Back then, I had a real issue with authors mixing technology into my fantasy. I don’t want to give anything away, but I can’t say this without doing so. Prior to listening to it, I couldn’t tell you what I didn’t like about it back then, but having revisited it, I’ve got a pretty good idea of what I didn’t like. I did not like this book when I read it back in the day. 2īook two of the Seventh Sword series, The Coming of Wisdom by Dave Duncan. The story holds up pretty well to the new standards of Fantasy literature and doesn’t feel particularly dated to me. I found Wallie Smith to be a likeable and relatable character. I think the handling of slavery is understated, probably unrealistic, but the way the main character handles it is well done. There are flaws, but they’re easily overlooked and I’m not going to point them out. There is a decided oriental feel to the society and the culture that I noticed this time through, but had not noticed back when I first read the book.Īs one of the first novels Duncan published, it’s not perfect. The narrator was good, and that always helps. I really enjoyed it, even all these years later. Just to make things easier, the gods who brought him to this world are more than a little vague about what they want from him. And of course, everyone else wants to kill him, steal his stuff, or both. We round out the cast with a eccentric priest as guide, a voluptuous slave girl as a love interest, and a spunky kid sidekick/protege. And while the book starts slow, it’s not uninteresting. Okay, the whole “transported to another world to become a hero” thing was my aspiration incarnate. If he will pledge fealty to them, they will give him the skills to survive. Enter the gods who have brought him here, and after a bit of skepticism and disbelief on Wallies part, he’s left believing that this is his new reality. Those absent memories include all the societal mores and skills that would make living in this new world feasible. His earth memories are in tact, but the memories of the man whose body he now possesses are absent. Wallie contracted meningitis, died in the hospital, and found himself reborn into the body of a powerful swordsman on another world.
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The main character of this series is earthman, Wallie Smith. That is an impressive run and given my age, quite inspirational.īook one of the Seventh Sword series, The Reluctant Swordsman by Dave Duncan. His novels West of January and Children of Chaos won Aurora Awards, and his works received eight Endeavour Award nominations and a Sunburst Award nomination. He was 85 when he passed away in 2018 and in the 34 years he was writing he published 62 novels. He made his first sale (A Rose Red City) two years later in 1986 at the age of 53, just two weeks after his 31-year career as a geologist came to an end due to a slump in the oil business, at which point he switched to full-time writing. What’s that? Dave Duncan pursued a career as a geologist in the petroleum industry for nearly thirty years before he started writing science fiction and fantasy novels. Probably as soon as it appeared in my local used bookstore.ĭave Duncan has a special significance now that I did not know about before. The first three books of this series were published in 1988 and I read that first book, shortly thereafter. But I thought I’d make an exception with this series, because I need content for my blog, because my Facebook posts don’t really help me keep track of what I’ve listened to, and because the first book of this series was one of my favorite fantasy novels as a younger man. Usually, I throw up a paragraph on the audible review and repost it to my Facebook page. I don’t typically do this kind of write up of the audiobooks I listen to.
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