Suldrun’s Garden-Jack Vance novel, book review
Suldrun’s Garden-Jack Vance novel AKA: Lyonesse Book 1 Suldrun's Garden was first published as a paperback novel in 1983. It is currently in print in a high quality Spatterlight paperback edition. My out of print copy has 439 pages of text, making this one of Vance's longer works. It is not science fiction but classic fantasy. All three novels in the Lyonesse trilogy are fascinating, magical masterpieces of the highest order. They are highly recommended not simply to Vance fans but to any open minded, literate and intelligent readers of fiction. This is creativity and imagination at its finest. The setting is on Earth in the Elder Isles a string of islands that run from near northern France extending up toward Ireland. The Elder Isles are currently divided into ten kingdoms that either cooperate or compete with other Elder Isles kingdoms for survival or control. Ireland, Britain, Amorica, Aquitaine and Galicia are nearby coun...