The Bifrost Guardians: Volume One

By Mickey Zucker Reichert

Book Overview

Now in one volume, the first three novels in the startlingly original Bifrost Guardians series: an epic saga of a Vietnam soldier sent through time and space.

Godslayer Torn away from the midst of firefight in Vietnam and catapulted to a time and place where the Norse gods fight a deadly war of their own, Al Larson finds himself locked into an elvish body on a world where swords and spells are the means of battle. Al must adapt swiftly or die. For the gods have marked him as their own private battleground, and Al's only chance rests in completing the quest Freyr has set him, a quest that will lead him to the very gates of Hel, where he must save a god--or destroy one.

Shadow Climber Taziar Medakan is the Shadow Climber, skilled at remaining one with the shadows, unseen in the midst of his enemies. But though Taz can defeat any trap, he isn't prepared for the treachery that lands him in the baron's dreaded dungeon. In that seemingly inescapable place, he meets Moonbear, a prince among barbarians, a swordsman beyond compare, and Taz's only hope for salvation. But when the two seek a pathway to freedom, they find the whole kingdom on their trail in a pursuit led by a Dragonrank sorcerer on his own mission of magical revenge.

Dragonrank Master The balance between Chaos and Law has been all but lost. Fenris Wolf and Hel herself both seek vengeance on Al Larson and his allies, the Shadow Climber and the master swordsman Gaelinar. Pursued by these nightmare foes, can Larson and the rest survive long enough to recover the one hope of the forces of Law--the legendary rod of Geirmagnus, the first Dragonrank mage--a mission that will take them from the citadel of Dragonrank powers to war-torn Vietnam to Hel's dark realm and beyond?

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886779197
• ISBN13: 9780886779191
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

a short, simple, bittersweet story

This is a fast paced and magical deluge of fantasy that left me wistfully uplifted. Reichert endeavors to serve an amalgam of simple but uniquely creative fantasy in a lightweight canopy of addictive storytelling. Her interpretation of Scandinavia as it relates to Norse mythology and American history are better served by her eery comfort in writing from the male perspective. It's a simple story. Sticklers for detail may prefer more bloated literature. I enjoyed it immensely.

Very Entertaining!

This was a very entertaining norse-myth fantasy.I really liked the characters: Al Larson, vietnam soldier transported to norse-myth oriented world in a body of elf and his battles with evil dark elf sorcerer.I also enjoy Taz the noble thief as well. This book was easier read than most of Reichert's novels. Bifrost Guardians is less convoluted not as depressing as her other norse myth series:Renshai and has more light-hearted humor as well.