Re: The Worm Ourboros
Posted by: Anonymous User (IP Logged)
Date: 15 December, 2003 12:14PM
Hi Phillip,
for whatever reason, the Zimiamvian Trilogy has not been reprinted for quite some time now. Gollancz put out Mistress of Mistresses in 2001, however the last reprint for the complete Trilogy was (as far as I know) in 1992, when Del Rey issued ZIMIAMVIA - A TRILOGY as a paperback (including some then but recently discovered fragments of the unfinished THE MEZENTIAN GATE, printed there for the first time, along with 100+ pages of informative notes by Eddison scholar Paul Edmund Thomas). Needless to say, that edition is already out of print again. Albeit, you can find second hand copies @ about US $ 35.00+ going up. Not too bad for a darn paperback I guess...
Personally, I'd even prefer ZIMIAMVIAN to OUROBOROS. It is a unique epic (actually each book of the trilogy is a complete epic in itself). The stuff to stand the test of time. They don't make 'em like this anymore :ยด-(
You may also want to check out the norse epic "Styrbiorn The Strong" by Eddison (there are still copies available of the beautiful 1978 HC reprint by Arno Press. I think the remainder of the Arno Press catalogue is now distributed by Ayer Publ.)
Greetings from Germany
Holger
PS:
I'D SURE LOVE TO SEE A DECENT BIBLIOPHILE HARDCOVER EDITION OF THE ZIMIAMVIAN TRILOGY !!! (@ publishers near and far ... hint, hint, plead, beg!!)
You cannot imagine how really hard it is to get this stuff over here. :-/