Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II
resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic fantasy
adventure.
Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. A Danish engineer working
with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he is wounded during an
engagement with the enemy and awakens in an unfamiliar parallel universe
where the forces of Law are locked in eternal combat with the forces of
Chaos. Against a medieval backdrop, brave knights must take up arms
against magical creatures of myth and faerie, battling dragons, trolls,
werewolves, and giants.
Though Holger has no recollection of this world, he discovers he is
already well-known throughout the lands, a hero revered as a Champion of
Law. He finds weaponry and armor awaiting him--precisely fitted to his
form--and a shield with three hearts and three lions emblazoned upon it.
As he journeys through a realm filled with wonders in search of the key
to his past, Holger will call upon the scientific knowledge of his home
dimension, the destinies of both worlds hanging in the balance.
Before Thomas Covenant, Roger Zelazny's Amber, and J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Lord of the Rings, the great Poul Anderson introduced readers to
the Middle World and the legendary hero Ogier the Dane. Inventive and
exciting, Three Hearts and Three Lions is a foray into fantasy that
employs touches of science fiction from an award-winning master of the
speculative.
