Mythago Wood: 1 (Mythago Cycle)

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The whole "am I becoming a myth myself" aspect of the main character's part of the story was awesome and there was level of straight up cool-ness in everything going on that I rarely find in my reading these days. I have not been this engaged in a book in a long time and it is great to know it is just the beginning of a multi-book series.

Michael Moorcock finds Mythago Wood notable for focusing on the subject of unity, including both the unity of the landscape and its inhabitants as well as the unity of dreams and the environment. I love working with the mix and match of different legends, and The Hollowing, of all my work, is probably the richest and most complex novel in this way. For the first time I was able to give full rein to the ‘Green Men’ I created, the ‘daurog’; and I was also able to give my characters a better diet! Datlow, Ellen, and Windling, Terri, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction.When both brothers fall in love with a nature goddess mythago that strays from the wood, things get even weirder (and more nasty!

Stephen soon has his own encounters with the woodland mythagos (and an older Christian) and eventually, to save both his brother and a mythago girl named Guiwenneth (also referred to as Gwyneth or Gwyn), he ventures deep into the wood, accompanied by Harry. The Urscumug was generated on purpose by George Huxley and is a malevolent and ancient variation on the woodwose.Le Guin's "low fantasy" novel The Beginning Place and George Meredith's poem The Woods of Westermain.

Her arms and legs were thin, but the muscles were wiry; a fine blonde down covered her calves and I noticed that her knees were badly scarred.Brian Aldiss has written that "Ryhope Wood [is] that terrifying metaphor for our mental labyrinths" in which " phylogeny presides over ontogeny" with regard to an individual's history and destiny.