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War of the Gods on Earth #3
The Lady of the Snowmist
Evil is not a foreign body which some clever surgeon of morals can neatly excise; it is a part of ourselves which we have to learn to live with.
Jarik Blacksword has ties with the gods.
He wields the almighty, powerful Black Sword and bears the bonds of the gods. However, he is given his freedom from these bonds by the Lady of the Snowmist, who instead binds him in a blood-tie to ensure his part is played in the war that rages between the gods.
Jarik and his warrior-woman companion Jilain soon find themselves caught in the middle of a bloody struggle.
On the one side, there are the Iron Lords who desperately long for the Lady of the Snowmist's demise and will stop at nothing to destroy her. The other side is that of the Lady of the Snowmist, who may not be as evil as the Iron Lords claim she is.
However, once The Lady of the Snowmist freed Jarik of his god-bonds, she did not anticipate the boundless rage of Jarik’s god-sword... nor which side he will support.
Will he become a friend or a foe of the mystical sorceress? Soon he and Jilain will discover that the wrong decision could cost them their lives...
Andrew J. Ouffutt’s The Lady of the Snowmist is an exciting fantasy novel. The Lady of the Snowmist is the third instalment of War of the Gods on Earth series.
Praise for Andrew J Offutt:
“Great entertainment of epic scope” – Poul Anderson
“One of the major players from the sword and sorcery boom from the 70s” – Adventures Fantastic
“Offers a new dimension in heroic fantasy.” – Jerry Pournelle
“This is only the first of many adventures to come.” – Andre Norton
Andrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author who wrote prolifically under a variety of pseudonyms and genres, including John Cleve, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, and Turk Winter. He is the father of novelist Chris Offutt and professor Jeff Offutt. A sterling author of both science fiction and fantasy, primarily in the subgenre of Sword and Sorcery, he was most active throughout the 1970s and 80s. Venture Press have also released The Iron Lords.
Jarik Blacksword has ties with the gods.
He wields the almighty, powerful Black Sword and bears the bonds of the gods. However, he is given his freedom from these bonds by the Lady of the Snowmist, who instead binds him in a blood-tie to ensure his part is played in the war that rages between the gods.
Jarik and his warrior-woman companion Jilain soon find themselves caught in the middle of a bloody struggle.
On the one side, there are the Iron Lords who desperately long for the Lady of the Snowmist's demise and will stop at nothing to destroy her. The other side is that of the Lady of the Snowmist, who may not be as evil as the Iron Lords claim she is.
However, once The Lady of the Snowmist freed Jarik of his god-bonds, she did not anticipate the boundless rage of Jarik’s god-sword... nor which side he will support.
Will he become a friend or a foe of the mystical sorceress? Soon he and Jilain will discover that the wrong decision could cost them their lives...
Andrew J. Ouffutt’s The Lady of the Snowmist is an exciting fantasy novel. The Lady of the Snowmist is the third instalment of War of the Gods on Earth series.
Praise for Andrew J Offutt:
“Great entertainment of epic scope” – Poul Anderson
“One of the major players from the sword and sorcery boom from the 70s” – Adventures Fantastic
“Offers a new dimension in heroic fantasy.” – Jerry Pournelle
“This is only the first of many adventures to come.” – Andre Norton
Andrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author who wrote prolifically under a variety of pseudonyms and genres, including John Cleve, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, and Turk Winter. He is the father of novelist Chris Offutt and professor Jeff Offutt. A sterling author of both science fiction and fantasy, primarily in the subgenre of Sword and Sorcery, he was most active throughout the 1970s and 80s. Venture Press have also released The Iron Lords.
215 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 1983
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Andrew J. Offutt
209 books72 followersAndrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as Andrew J. Offutt, A.J. Offutt, and Andy Offut. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, had his name in all lower-case letters. His son is the author Chris Offutt.
Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.
Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.
As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.
Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.
Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.
As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.
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April 29, 2020
I enjoyed this third and last book in the "Jack & Jill" series, but was also a bit let-down because it didn't bring much of a resolution to the situations from the previous set-ups. The series didn't get much publisher support (the first volume was published by Jove, the second by Berkley, and this one by Ace), and there wasn't anything of an effort to give them a uniform look; the first edition of this novel has an early Tom Kidd cover, which, while quite good, doesn't look anything like the Rowena illustrations on the preceding. Anyway, I suspect more adventures were planned but that offutt never got to write them. The language tends just a little to the faux-florid at times, but D&D was starting to take off so that's how all the cool swordsfolk had to talk in 1980. This one is a good fantasy adventure with memorable characters and an interesting plot featuring unusual human/supernatural relationships.
February 5, 2022
It's easy to see the story and character as a reply to Michael Moorcock's Elric in the "I-can-do-better-than-that" vein. The style also shows the influence of Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword. Into this the author injects some rather interesting ideas about reincarnation, split personalities, genetic experimentation, and whether some people thrive on their own unhappiness. The downside is that many plot elements are left in limbo at the end of the third book. Worse, Book 2's first chapter is a clumsy retelling of Book 1, while a third of Book 3 is taken up rehashing the first two books. Presumably, this was for the benefit of someone who grabbed a volume from the spinner rack on the basis of its cover art. Those for whom time is precious would be best off only reading Book 3.
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October 23, 2025Heroic fantasy.
January 29, 2016
Nice 3rd book in the trilogy. Good fantasy read. Recommended
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