The Dancers of Arun

The Dancers of Arun is a fantasy novel by American writer Elizabeth A. Lynn, published in 1979.

First edition (publ. Berkley/Putnam)
Cover art by Mike Mariano

Plot summary

The Dancers of Arun is the second novel in The Chronicles of Tornor series.

Reception

Greg Costikyan reviewed The Dancers of Arun in Ares Magazine #5 and commented that "The primary thrust of the novels is their Message: that we can live in harmony, that capitalism is not necessary since we can all share in love and wonderfulness, and that all problems can be solved if we have the courage to be human. Nice enough, but hardly earth-shattering."

Kirkus Reviews states "Lynn is to be admired for attempting serious things in the fantasy genre, but here nothing quite works: the settings remain faceless despite any amount of description; the love story awkwardly combines homosexual incest and drenching sentimentality; and Lynn's prose style is laconic to the point of numbness. A gifted writer, gone much astray."

Reviews

• Review by Baird Searles (1979) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1979
• Review by Orson Scott Card (1980) in Destinies, Spring 1980
• Review by Michael Bishop (1980) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1980
• Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1980) in Science Fiction Review, August 1980
• Review by Ian Williams (1980) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 4, Number 2
• Review [French] by Emmanuel Jouanne (1982) in Fiction, #331
• Review by Marleen S. Barr [as by Marleen Barr] (1982) in Extrapolation, Spring 1982
• Review [German] by Andreas Decker (1983) in Science Fiction Times, Juni 1983