[Ballantine Adult Fantasy 66] • Merlin's Ring

H. WARNER MUNN has been writing fantasy and science fiction for the best part of thirty years. Throughout the years, Munn worked at his magnum opus,Merlin’s Ring, an epic fantasy of extraordinary sweep and drama. It tells the story of Gwalchmai, godson to Merlin, and of Corenice, an immortal woman of Atlantis, and of a love that spanned centuries of high adventure.

Gwalchmai is an active participant in much of Earth’s development, living in worlds both magical and real. Throughout he carries the ring of Merlin, which gives him certain arcane powers. Throughout runs the thread of the very moving love story of Corenice and Gwalchmai—lovers separated poignantly time and again by the adventures that take Gwalchmai from Atlantis to the Norseland, from the elf-world to pre-history, from Arthur’s Court to the Far East, from Cathay to Irish mythology, from medieval Rome to the burning of the Maid of Orléans. Seldom has such a huge canvas so successfully combined major historic events with the worlds of magic and wonder.