The Warrior Who Carried Life Explained

The Warrior Who Carried Life is a novel by Geoff Ryman published in 1985.^[1]

Plot summary

Cara learns witchcraft to get revenge on the Galu.

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Warrior Who Carried Life for White Dwarf #66, and stated that "For the climax Ryman goes for broke; a sad and gentle coda saves his theme from the common fault of being too big to care about. There are glitches (the appalling poetry of the Secret Rose crashes to I earth when verbalized as 'Humanity was in danger of being replaced'), but Ryman is an author to watch."^[2]

Colin Greenland reviewed The Warrior Who Carried Life for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Ryman draws on folklore other authors have forgotten, to create a dark fantasy at once familiar and deeply strange. Cara's quest through hell for vengeance on inhuman invaders has the clarity and conviction of a good nightmare. Geoff Ryman is the most gifted of new British fantasy writers by far."^[3]

Reviews

• Review by Brian Stableford (1985) in Fantasy Review, June 1985
• Review by Faren Miller (1985) in Locus, #294 July 1985
• Review by Mike Dickinson (1985) in Vector 127
• Review by Gregory Feeley (1985) in Foundation, #35 Winter 1985/1986, (1986)
• Review by Mary Gentle (1985) in Interzone, #12 Summer 1985
• Review by Orson Scott Card (1987) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1987
• Review by Tom Easton (1987) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1987
• Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1989) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1989
• Review by Matt Hilliard (2013) in Strange Horizons, 22 July 2013

Notes and References

1. Web site: Title: The Warrior Who Carried Life. isfdb.org.
2. Langford . Dave . David Langford . Critical Mass . . 66 . 8 . . June 1985 .
3. Greenland. Colin . Colin Greenland. Fantasy Media . review . . 27. 47 . TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. . June 1985.