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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780020228714 ISBN: 0020228716 Label: Collier Books Manufacturer: Collier Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 309 Publication Date: 1991-05 Publisher: Collier Books Studio: Collier Books Editorial Review: Product Description: "A GLITTERING, SHIMMERING WEB OF THE IMAGINATION." NEW YORK TIMES. A classic of fantasy that transports the reader across worlds to mystery and romance beyond compare. John Kenton receives a ship, carved from a weird gem, unearthed in the ruins of ancient Babylon. Soon the ship has transported him to a mystic realm created by the Gods for a special vengeance. For the ship is the battleground for an age old conflict between Ishtar, Goddess of Life and Love, and Nergal, Dark God of Death. Those on board the ship have sailed the uncounted centuries since Babylon. Unless John Kenton is that hope, sent by Nabu, God of Justice to resolve the conflict once and for all. But John Kenton knows he is only a man, and wants to escape the ship - until he makes friends with Gigi, the ships frog-like, good-hearted drummer, Sigurd the Viking, and other members of the crew, dredged up through time, and sees Sharane, handmaiden and priestess of Ishtar, as courageous and beautiful as the goddess herself. Then Kenton is swears to battle the God of Death, if that's what it takes to win Sharane. It's a promise he will have to keep, and his only hope is for the birds -- the doves of Ishtar! The New York Times hailed The Ship of Ishtar as, "A glimmering, glittering web of imagination." The Saturday Review of Literature says Merritt's work is "genius, unique, eerie and compelling..." The Science Fiction Encyclopedia writes that Merritt's stories possess "genuine imaginative power in the creation of alternate worlds and realities," and that The Ship of Ishtar's "highly colored descriptive passages have a strong effect reader." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Free SF ReaderOne bigger ship, two gods. A man unearths an ancient artifact, and a small ship is writ large, leaving him in a fantasy world embroiled in the conflict between deities of Love and Death. The ship-dwellers are the former, and our hero's side. The black priest, unsurprisingly, is the latter. In the beginning this fantasy novel is rather flowery, and may bring to mind, for example, H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath. Towards the end you ... Read More Rating:  - A FANTASY FOR THE AGES"The Ship of Ishtar," one of Abraham Merritt's finest fantasies, first appeared in the pages of "Argosy" magazine in 1924. An altered version appeared in book form in 1926, and the world finally received the original work in book form in 1949, six years after Merritt's death. In this wonderful novel we meet John Kenton, an American archaeologist who has just come into possession of a miniature crystal ship recently excavated "from the sand shrouds of ages-dead Babylon." Before too long, Kenton is whisked ... Read More Rating: - The Greatest Fantasy NovelThis exhilerating adventure story is jammed with as much true fantasy creation as the modern writer's ten book series. The Ship of Ishtar is all but forgotten, but deserves to be even more popular than Tolkien's novels. The story centers around a British man who is wisked into a fantasy world where evil and good are trapped together on a ship. Adrift. To delve too deeply into the plot now would cheat prospective readers, but this is a sexy, romantic, thrilling, brilliant, fantastic, adventure ... Read More Rating: - Romantic AdventureThe Ship of Ishtar is one of the better 1930's Indiana Jones style pulp adventure novels. An archeologist unearths a miniature ship artifact that transports him to another dimension, where he becomes a macho hero, who, with the help of an interesting assortment of new friends, assists a lovely priestess in a battle against some evil warlocks. His adventures lead him through some wonderfully imaginative fantasy locales, and the book has a spectacular ending. |
