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Warrener's Beastie
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Publisher's Weekly:
Historian (The Civil War in North Carolina) and novelist (The Fires of
Pride) Trotter sends up Nordic myth in this delightfully incongruous
tale of midlife crisis, redemption and mythical sea monsters. Allen
Warrener has long dreamed of doing something memorable.
So, when an old acquaintance asks him to
organize a North Atlantic expedition to search for the mythical Vardinoy Monster, Warrener agrees and assembles an unlikely crew,
including his girlfriend, an old flame from his student days and a
former porn director and his wife, "the Queen of Quality Porn." The
expedition is quickly unsettled by strange discoveries, hostile Nordic
islanders and a sabotaged boat. As bodies begin to pile up and an
impending volcanic eruption looms, Warrener may finally have his shot
at glory. Immensely entertaining, this sprawling adventure straddles
the lines between sci-fi, fantasy and thriller and will find a
readership in each camp.
"Locus" (the Publishers Weekly of the sci-fi genre)
says: Trotter's novel is simultaneously obsessive, berserk, cthonic,
marine and volcanic! Fabulism at its finest!"
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The latest work by Trotter
June 2006
In this magnificent modern rendering of a classic
Norse myth, award-winning writer William Trotter transports the
reader to faraway Vardinoy in the exotic Faeroe Islands, the
remote Scandinavian locale that has bewitched Allen Warrener since
his first and only visit there twenty years before. Now
middle-aged, Allen decides that to revitalize his wearisome
existence he must return to Vardinoy, the island that has haunted
and inspired him for most of his life — and so wanders unwittingly
into circumstances far more sinister, and potentially far more
dangerous, than he ever could have supposed. Among the many
temptations and risks of this increasingly mystifying land there
is the creature, the legendary undersea monster that becomes a
metaphor as captivatingly elusive as the Golden Fleece; Andreas
Dahl, a famous painter, whose appearance on the island seems too
fortuitous a coincidence; and Elsuba, the woman who still
mesmerizes Allen even decades after their affair.
Uncommonly suspenseful and richly atmospheric, Warrener’s
Beastie is a hypnotic literary adventure that will entrance
readers — even as it reminds them to be careful about what they
wish for.
RAVE REVIEWS!
'Warrener's
Beastie' by William R. Trotter should fully
satisfy your fat-book desires for the summer and then some. How
can you go wrong with a book about water monsters? Trotter is best
known for his Civil War fiction, including "The Civil War in North
Carolina", a non-fiction trilogy that is cited as source material
for 'Cold Mountain'. But I know him from the pages of DeathRealm
magazine, where he was a regular for many years, and 'Warrener's
Beastie' fits much more snugly into that oeuvre.
What's not
obvious is that Trotter delivers a beautifully crafted novel on a
number of levels. Part family saga, Norse-fantasy evocation and
(of course, you can't hammer this one home too often) Lovecraftian
sea-monster god, 'Warrener's Beastie' begins early in the lives of
its main characters, following Allen Warrener from his childhood
in Dickensian detail. Like Karen Hambly, he has mystical
experiences, which, in not-so-short order, lead him on a
cryptozoological expedition to find something known only as The
Vardinoy Monster. And that's as much as you want to know.
Monsters. Family. Details. Trotter's novel fires off as a
character-and-detail-driven literary work, then it voyages into
realms of fantasy, science fiction and horror. Did I mention the
sea-monster? 686 pages, guaranteed monster, find it with
literature. What could be more appropriate? This is the kind of
novel I'm here for.
Agony Column Review
Warrener's expedition to the remote
island of Vardinoy in search of a legendary sea monster turns into
a thriller of a battle with overtones of Ragnarök!
Library Journal
"Locus" (the
Publishers Weekly of the sci-fi genre) says: "...and then the
action really cranks up, in a final sequence of crises and
climaxes where elements of Melville, Lovecraft and Nordic myths and
sagas come together with more than a literal bang - simultaneously
obsessive, berserk, cthonic, marine and volcanic! ... . Fabulism at
its finest."
Locus
Monstrous maestro
of the fantastic novels Winter Fire, The Sands of Pride, The Fires
of Pride, and the just-released Warrener's Beastie.
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