Mark.Boggs%CMU-CS-A@sri-unix.UUCP (07/14/83)
At least two other retellings of the Arthurian myth come to mind. 1] A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain This is perhaps my favorite telling of the story and *very* highly recommended. 2] Marion Zimmer Bradley's 800 odd page epic (the title slips my mind) I haven't read this yet; however, all the reports I've received panned it. Other than that Arthur Landis set up a space opera in a series of books starting with "A World Called Camelot," and Poul Anderson did something similar in "The High Crusade." Anderson's work is the better of the two (at least to my taste) and well worth reading. If you really want to know about all the treatments of Arthurian legend in book form, I recall seeing an advertisement for something called "The Arthurian Concordance" a couple of years back. I think it ran for about $35 and claimed to be a complete listing of Arthur and his knights in print through the time of its publication. -Mark
myers@uwvax.ARPA (Jeff Myers) (07/16/83)
My apologies if this one has been mentioned before, but another good series dealing with the Arthurian legends are the three books by Mary Stewart, written from Merlin's perspective. The three books are highly reccommended (sp?); the titles are: 1) The Crystal Cave 2) The Hollow Hills 3) I Forget the Third Book's Title