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John Morressy (1930–2006)

Author of Frostworld and Dreamfire

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Works by John Morressy

Frostworld and Dreamfire (1977) 142 copies
A Voice for Princess (1986) 142 copies
Kedrigern in Wanderland (1988) 129 copies
Kingsbane (1982) 123 copies
The Questing of Kedrigern (1987) 122 copies
A Remembrance for Kedrigern (1990) 104 copies
Ironbrand (1980) 101 copies
Graymantle (1981) 101 copies
Starbrat (1972) — Author — 96 copies
Nail Down the Stars (1973) 92 copies
Under a calculating star (1975) 89 copies
The Mansions of Space (1983) 72 copies
A Law for the Stars (1976) 55 copies
The Time Of the Annihilator (1985) 54 copies
The Juggler (1996) 52 copies
The Extraterritorial (1977) 27 copies
Kedrigern I (1997) 6 copies
The Humans of Ziax II (1974) 6 copies
The Drought on Ziax II (1978) 5 copies
Long Communion (1974) 3 copies
Fool 3 copies
The windows of forever (1975) 2 copies
Timekeeper [short story] (1990) 2 copies
The Long Run 1 copy
Alaska 1 copy
English lite 1 copy
Nest Egg 1 copy
Cold Comfort 1 copy
Floored 1 copy
Stoneskin 1 copy
About Face 1 copy
Science Fiction Special 35 (1981) — Contributor — 1 copy

Associated Works

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998) — Contributor, some editions — 508 copies
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999) — Contributor — 335 copies
100 Great Fantasy Short, Short Stories (1984) — Contributor — 248 copies
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001) — Contributor — 186 copies
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy (2005) — Contributor — 182 copies
The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales (2004) — Contributor — 164 copies
Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey (1996) — Contributor — 142 copies
Xanadu (1993) — Contributor — 127 copies
The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (2002) — Contributor — 117 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 (1980) — Contributor — 107 copies
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 92 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 11 (1985) — Contributor — 61 copies
Survival of Freedom (1981) — Contributor — 55 copies
Tolkiens Geschöpfe (2003) — Contributor — 20 copies
Bruce Coville's UFOs (2000) — Contributor — 8 copies
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine | January 1982 (1982) — Contributor — 2 copies
Urania Millemondinverno 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy

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A pretty standard dark entertainment. a young adult kidnapped by slavers escapes. He's sold for gladiatorial combat purposes.He has a lot of control issues.
 
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DinadansFriend | Sep 20, 2017 |
I've reviewed the first book in this volume at FanLit:

A Voice for Princess is the first volume of John Morressy’s KEDRIGERN CHRONICLES, a series of novels and short stories about the reclusive wizard Kedrigern. In this first novel, Kedrigern retires from the wizard guild because he’s mad at his colleagues for schmoozing with alchemists (whom Kedrigern considers beneath barbarians on the human worth scale). Accompanied by his ugly but loyal house troll, Spot (whose vocabulary consists entirely of the word “Yah!”), off Kedrigern goes to build himself a solitary home on Silent Thunder Mountain.

Eventually Kedrigern becomes lonely and decides he’d like a wife. After a couple of unsuccessful courting efforts, he stumbles upon a beautiful and intelligent princess who has been turned into a frog. What luck! Kedrigern’s area of expertise is counterspells, but ... Read More:
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/fantasy-author/morressyjohn/
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Kat_Hooper | Apr 6, 2014 |
Originally posted at FanLit.

A Voice for Princess is the first volume of John Morressy’s KEDRIGERN CHRONICLES, a series of novels and short stories about the reclusive wizard Kedrigern. In this first novel, Kedrigern retires from the wizard guild because he’s mad at his colleagues for schmoozing with alchemists (whom Kedrigern considers beneath barbarians on the human worth scale). Accompanied by his ugly but loyal house troll, Spot (whose vocabulary consists entirely of the word “Yah!”), off Kedrigern goes to build himself a solitary home on Silent Thunder Mountain.

Eventually Kedrigern becomes lonely and decides he’d like a wife. After a couple of unsuccessful courting efforts, he stumbles upon a beautiful and intelligent princess who has been turned into a frog. What luck! Kedrigern’s area of expertise is counterspells, but ... Read More:
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/a-voice-for-princess/
… (more)
 
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Kat_Hooper | 1 other review | Apr 6, 2014 |
Thank you very much to the kind person that took this to my favorite home for used books. I fell in love with Kedrigern the moment he made a debut in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and am happy to include this one with the others.

John Morressy took his original short stories, and knit them together in this first novel, with additional material. His sense of humor, and turn of phrase, endeared me to him then, and it still does.
 
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Lyndatrue | 1 other review | Nov 30, 2013 |

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