Chrysanthe

Yves Meynard

Fantasy
A powerful fantasy epic in one volume, in the tradition of The Book of Joby

Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician and exiled in a Made World that is a version of our present reality. In exile, supervised by her strict "uncle," – actually a wizard in disguise – she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy, through which she is forced to remember childhood rape and abuse by her parents and others. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrible plot, but at seventeen discovers it is all a lie. Christine escapes with a rescuer, Sir Quentin, a knight from Chrysanthe, in the thrilling chase across realities.

Once home, the magical standoff caused by her exile is broken, and a war begins, in spite of the best efforts of her father, the king, and his wizard, Melogian. And that war, which takes up nearly the last third of the work, is a marvel of magical invention and terror, a battle between good and evil forces that resounds with echoes of the great battles of fantasy literature.
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March 8, 2012
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Yves Meynard

Born in 1964 in Québec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Longueuil, on the south shore of Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal. Since 1986, he has published over 40 science fiction and fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 13 books in French. His first book in English, a Fantasy novel titled The Book of Knights, came out in January 1998 from Tor Books. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois in 1994. Yves is a collaborator of the Québécois SF magazine Solaris; he has been an anthologist for several…