A trio of fantasies packed with realism, sensuousness and history

Chicago Sun-Times | October 8, 1989| | Copyright

Fantasy now has room for not only many authors but many different approaches.

By a wide margin Glen Cook's best book, The Tower of Fear (Tor, $16.95) has only a modest fantasy element. The real strength of the book is its meticulous, grimly realistic depiction of the Middle Eastern-flavored city of Qushmarrah, and the three factions struggling within it.

There are the Qushmarrans, seeking the reincarnation of a dead sorcerer in order to liberate themselves from foreign occupation. There are the empire-building Herodians, and there are the nomadic desert Dartars serving the Herodians as ...

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