Wielding a Red Sword

Name: Wielding a Red Sword
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Author: Piers Anthony
ISBN: 9781440781742

Author: Piers Anthony

Series: Incarnations of Immortality #4

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/10/2007

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

Legendary science fiction/fantasy writer Piers Anthony combines fascinating magic with a gripping struggle between good and evil in this most ambitious series. As with the series' other stand-alone novels, Wielding a Red Sword depicts a mere mortal who is called to serve as a god-like incarnation. It is the thrilling story of Mym, an Indian prince who takes up the Red Sword to become Mars, the Incarnation of War. To avoid breaking his betrothal to the princess Rapture and the war that would surely result, Mym accepts the fearsome office. As Mars, he plans to keep Rapture by his side as he stops the suffering caused by Earth's incessant wars. But will Mym's princely training, even his abilities as a berserker, be enough to defeat Satan himself? Piers Anthony weaves together adventure, romance, and Eastern and Western mytholigies to create this charming allegory. Master narrator George Guidall delivers the elegant tale with a dignified tone and much dramatic flair. Also available: On a Pale Horse, Bearing an Hourglass, and With a Tangled Skein.

About Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best known for his long-running Magic of Xanth series, many of which are New York Times bestsellers, he has also had great success with the Incarnations of Immortality series and the Cluster series, as well as Bio of a Space Tyrant, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on March 06, 2014

Took me so long to read because I couldn't bring myself to want to put myself through the misery. Characters are slightly more developed here than in other books, but this one reeks with racism (unfair, one-dimensional stereotypes of Indians), sexism (woman's suffrage is taught to the poor, backward......more

Goodreads review by Don on May 25, 2020

Book # 4 of The Incarnations series is about the Incarnation of War, Mars. Another wonderful addition to this series. It follows Mym, who is forced to leave a woman he loves in order to marry another woman; all in the name of what's best for his country. Then after he falls in love with this second w......more

Goodreads review by mike on March 29, 2019

i seemed to like this better as a kid......more

Goodreads review by Craig on May 24, 2024

"War, properly managed, was certainly better than the alternatives of oppression or dispossession." Mym may have been raised as a prince in India, but his chronic stutter is an embarrassment to his Royal Family. He runs away to join a circus and falls for the singer Orb, the daughter of Fate and sis......more

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry on November 25, 2017

Not the best in this series, but still very good at 4/5 stars. Some books in this series were bound to be better than others but it's all good, and this book does not disappoint even if it's a bit repetitive in some parts. However, the philosophical discussions between Mars and Satan are to be consi......more