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Katherine Kurtz

Författare till Deryni Rising

66+ verk 26,286 medlemmar 198 recensioner 67 favoritmärkta

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Katherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida on October 18, 1944. She received a four-year science scholarship to the University of Miami where she graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry. She completed an M.A. in medieval English history at UCLA while writing her first two novels, and working as visa mer an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy. She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, a student of comparative religion, and somewhat of an authority on heraldry and chivalry She has also joined with Deborah Turner Harris, and together they have written five books in an adept series of occult detective thrillers set in modern Scotland. Her first editing foray, Tales of The Knights Templar, appeared from Warner Books in 1995, which wa followed by a second volume, On Crusade: More Tales of The Knights Templar. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Katherine Kurtz

Deryni Rising (1970) 2,015 exemplar
Camber av Culdi (1976) 1,698 exemplar
Deryni Checkmate (1972) 1,597 exemplar
High Deryni (1973) 1,569 exemplar
Saint Camber (1978) 1,441 exemplar
Camber the Heretic (1981) 1,366 exemplar
The Bishop's Heir (1984) 1,301 exemplar
The King's Justice (1985) 1,203 exemplar
The Quest for Saint Camber (1986) 1,198 exemplar
The Harrowing of Gwynedd (1989) 1,090 exemplar
The Adept (1991) 859 exemplar
The Deryni Archives (1982) 819 exemplar
King Javan's Year (1992) 788 exemplar
The Bastard Prince (1994) 768 exemplar
King Kelson's Bride (2000) 741 exemplar
The Lodge of the Lynx (1992) 684 exemplar
The Templar Treasure (1993) 670 exemplar
Dagger Magic (1995) 575 exemplar
Death of an Adept (1996) 548 exemplar
In The King's Service (2003) — Författare — 544 exemplar
Deryni Magic (1990) 512 exemplar
Lammas Night (1983) — Författare — 454 exemplar
St. Patrick's Gargoyle (2001) 423 exemplar
Childe Morgan (2006) 392 exemplar
The Temple and the Stone (1998) 364 exemplar
Knights of the Blood (1993) 360 exemplar
Two Crowns for America (1996) 275 exemplar
At Swords Point (1994) — Created by — 256 exemplar
Tales of the Knights Templar (1995) — Editor, Contributor — 253 exemplar
Deryni Tales (2000) 237 exemplar
Legacy of Lehr (1986) 235 exemplar
The Temple and the Crown (2001) 214 exemplar
Codex Derynianus (1998) — Författare — 162 exemplar
The King's Deryni (2014) 151 exemplar
The Chronicles of the Deryni (1970) 150 exemplar
On Crusade: More Tales of the Knights Templar (1998) — Editor, Contributor — 105 exemplar
Crusade of Fire: Mystical Tales of the Knights Templar (2002) — Editor, Contributor — 89 exemplar
Camber of Culdi/Bethane (2016) 40 exemplar
Venture in Vain (2001) 5 exemplar
Swords Against The Marluk (1977) 3 exemplar
Bethane [short story] (1982) 2 exemplar
The legacy of Leh 1 exemplar
Crusade of Fire 1 exemplar
Vocation [novelette] (1983) 1 exemplar
Legacy [short story] (1983) 1 exemplar
Healer's Song [short story] (1982) 1 exemplar
Catalyst [short story] (1985) 1 exemplar
Trial [novelette] (1986) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 374 exemplar
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 211 exemplar
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 170 exemplar
The Crafters (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 168 exemplar
Hecate's Cauldron (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 147 exemplar
Moonsinger's Friends: In Honor of Andre Norton (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 143 exemplar
Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 142 exemplar
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 132 exemplar
Battlestations (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 127 exemplar
Total War (1990) — Författare — 102 exemplar
Crisis (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 89 exemplar
The Gods of War (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
Legends (1999) — Inledning — 43 exemplar
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 36 (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar
Swords Against Darkness (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
The Deryni Adventure Game (2005) — Original novel — 20 exemplar
Novel Ideas-Fantasy (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Nine Visions, a Book of Fantasies (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Ashtaru der Schreckliche. (1982) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor9 exemplar
New Altars (1996) — Inledning — 3 exemplar

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Abandoned within the first 20 pages. The writing is unimaginative and horrid.
 
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electrascaife | 25 andra recensioner | Jan 18, 2024 |
This is the first of Kurtz's NUMEROUS books set in the Deryni world. High fantasy of an earlier era, this focuses on the death of the current king and the difficulties surrounding the inheriting of the throne. Interesting and somewhat unique (especially at the time) in fantasy, we have the Catholic Church itself as a major player in this fantasy world, separate and distinct from magic which is generally inherited by blood or rite from a race called the Deryni. Religious fanaticism and racism both play ongoing roles in this world. There are some strong female characters, including the primary antagonist.
I think one of the most interesting things about this first book is that the entire thing (minus the prologue) essentially takes place over the course of 24 hours. It was a good way to keep the pacing moving along, and not fall victim to a lot of detailed world-building in the first book by keeping the story so small and tight (less than a dozen truly important characters) despite the scale of its impact on the world.
I'm glad this was the next in the stack of inherited old fantasy and science fiction. I've been working through them, mostly from the 60s-80. At least as far as the fantasy was concerned I was growing worried that I had grown too old, too sophisticated as a reader, and/or just gotten to accustomed to newer (and often more grimdark) ways of telling these stories that I wasn't able to really enjoy work from the era during which I first fell in love with fantasy.
While this definitely hearkens back to a style of story-telling in fantasy that is definitively different than today, I still really enjoyed it. Whether it truly is or not, it *feels* slower paced, less grim. The magic was a little all over the place, but I know later on Kurtz pins down the system in a much more detailed way (there's a book just about how the magic works), but that feels normal for time period of fantasy during which this was written. I think this is readily accessible to adults, teens, and advanced young readers, just the kind of cross-demographic appeal fantasy was supposed to have.
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jdavidhacker | 25 andra recensioner | Jan 5, 2024 |
I've been going back to classic fantasy books. I missed this one when it came out, but it's the first of the Deryni series, first published in 1970.
It occurs in Gwynedd, where King Brion rules as leader of one of the Eleven Kingdoms. Brion is human but has powers bequeathed to him by the Deryni, a race of people with magic and psychic powers now persecuted by the Church. His general is Alaric Morgan, a half-Deryni who has been training the heir, Prince Kelson. A Deryni sorceress named Charissa assassinates Brion, but rumors paint Morgan as the killer.
This is epic high fantasy roughly based on Welsh legends and history. This book has spawned fifteen books that take place in this world, though this one can be read as a complete story. The world-building is fascinating and involved, with political machinations in both the court and church taking place among murders and magic. It's more YA fantasy than Game of Thrones, but a very satisfying introduction to a spellbinding world and characters that I will be reading more about.
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N.W.Moors | 25 andra recensioner | Oct 3, 2023 |

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Deborah Turner Harris Contributor, Author
Scott MacMillan Author, Contributor
Richard Woods Contributor
James D. Macdonald Contributor
Debra Doyle Contributor
Robert Reginald Contributor, Author
Robert J. Harris Contributor
Lawrence Schimel Contributor
Elizabeth Moon Contributor
Tanya Huff Contributor
Poul Anderson Contributor
Bradley H. Sinor Contributor
Julie Spangler Contributor
Andre Norton Contributor
Diane Duane Contributor
David Spangler Contributor
Susan Shwartz Contributor
Darrell K. Sweet Cover artist
Matt Stawicki Cover artist
Shelly Shapiro Cartographer
Nick Sullivan Narrator
Bob Pepper Cover artist
Michael Herring Cover artist
Bob Porter Illustrator, Map by
Michel Vrana Cover designer
Horst Pukallus Übersetzer, Translator
Tom Kidd Cover artist
Greg Call Cover artist
Jon Sullivan Cover artist
Joe Burleson Cover artist
Don Maintz Cover artist
Åke Eldberg Translator
Peter Eilhardt Cover artist
Melvyn Grant Cover artist
Edwin Herder Cover artist
Daniel R. Horne Cover artist
Bryant Eastman Cover artist
Kinuko Y. Craft Cover artist
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Statistik

Verk
66
Även av
20
Medlemmar
26,286
Popularitet
#798
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
198
ISBN
298
Språk
5
Favoritmärkt
67

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