Seventeen-year-old Arthur Godwin-Dragos finds himself much unlike his childhood heroes who fought for the grace and honor of Camelot. Banished to a bleak boarding school in England, Arthur cannot help but retreat into the fantasy of his mother’s old tales. Longing for his own destiny to assuage his loneliness and despair, Arthur withers in exile in wait for something more.In the stillness, … stillness, however, the hands of fate begin to turn. Across the universe, far out of reach of time or space, the planet Avalon grows dim. The ancient sorceress Merlin awakes from a fevered dream–as prophecy calls out through the darkness. Sealed and forgotten, Morgana la Fey stirs in the dark, biding her time to strike against Merlin and Avalon. Once again must the legend of King Arthur awaken, and with the power of the mighty Excalibur, beat back the insufferable darkness once and for all.
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E.C. Fisher’s Re:Camelot: The Complete Edition is a sci-fi hodgepodge mixing which retells the story of King Arthur. In this version Avalon is a planet and the story’s Arthur is an Earthling descendant of the King Arthur from myth, but there’s still horses and swords here, and lots of adventure to be quested. All told it somehow holds up and is pretty much fun. I’ve been bouncing around on how score this book. Sometime a 3 but more often a high 4. I’m giving it a 4 but wouldn’t be shocked if some give it either a 3 or a 5 star review.
What a way to re-imagine the classic story of Camelot and the Knights of the round table. I liked the mix of old and new and magic and technology into a compelling story that made me read to the end to see what might happen next. The concept of Avalon was amazing and helped make this a fun and interesting story. Liked that the basic characters were all here but a bit different. Just interesting and hard to put down story of good vs evil.
This was so different than the original king Arthur.
450 years after the original Merlin and King Arthur.
Technology,Magic hand in hand quite believable.
Arthur travelling From earth to Another planet Avalon,to save the planet.
Different take but still a battle of Good And Evil but more futuristic….
With all the decedents of the original characters Guinevere ,Merlin ,Morgana on a mission to find Excalibur to fight evil.
You will enjoy this as a new book or even after reading the old original book as a new more modern version.
Absolutely fantastic.
I had picked up Part 1 back in 2018 from Amazon and the rest from Story Origin later on but had not found time to read it until now. Alas, even with the passage of time grammatical errors abound. This is another case of a GREAT family-friendly two-day read brought low by sloppy editing.
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An Unforgettable Medieval-Based Interplanetary Adventure!
Overview: Banished to a bleak boarding school in England, Arthur Godwin-Dragos longs for something more as he withers in exile. Meanwhile, across the universe, far out of the reach of time or space, the planet Avalon grows dim, and the hands of fate begin to turn. Once again, King Arthur must awaken, and with the power of the mighty Excalibur, he must extinguish the insufferable Darkness threatening his people once and for all.
Following an alternate reality theme with a futuristic-type setting, a gender-balanced society, and the theory of reincarnation, Author E.C. Fisher writes an unforgettable medieval-based, inter-planetary adventure based on the legend of Camelot. This fast-paced, engaging read gathers together the original story’s descendants on the planet Avalon where the female Merlin must oversee their training to ultimately defeat a dark force threatening their world. As Author Fisher puts his characters to the test, we not only see the likenesses of Camelot’s characters emerge and come to life, we are able to anticipate the legend of a new Round Table beginning to take form with familiar villains like the Black Knight and Morgana la Fey tempting Arthur and his knights into an epic battle for their very existence.
“Re: Camelot: The Complete Edition” is based on E.C. Fisher’s original novel, “Re: Camelot” which I previously reviewed in 2018. In this latest volume, the author expands on his original story, giving more clarity to his plotline and characters. This is a fun and rousing read that is peppered with new revelations about Re:Camelot’s cast that is strewn with moments of comic relief, despite the gravity of the situation always being present. Fisher’s latest novel touches on all the familiar hallmarks readers love about the original Camelot tale. Oh… And, did I mention there are dragons?
I highly recommend this novel for Sci-fi and Fantasy fans ages 13 and up.
This was a great book, I really enjoyed reading it and found the sci-fi and fantasy combination really interesting. I thought the author’s take on the Arthurian Legend to be quite unique and this more than anything drew me into the story. If you are a fan of the Arthurian Legends this story might just be for you. Consider giving it a go.
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Like many readers, I was excited about the opportunity to read a new take / extension on King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot. I found the premise and basic plot involving an another planet, Arthurian descendants, and the history of Avalon and Camelot’s development over hundreds of years, to be an interesting start. Unfortunately, the free review copy which I received was filled with inaccurate spellings and poor grammar, as well as verbose and repetitive descriptions of clothing and outfits better “suited” to a society sheet than a fantasy novel. One has to wonder, “where was the editor”? Hopefully, the book can be edited and presented to the public in a revised version, which will make it a much smoother and enjoyable read.
I look forward to reading the author’s next book, one which will have received adequate editing in advance of distribution.
In case it wasn’t stated clearly enough above, for the record, I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving this review.
Interesting reimagining of King Arthur. It blends it with science fiction to create a fresh new story.
I am a huge fan of Arthurian tales and the whole legend of Camelot and all of the knights and Merlin and Morgana, so I had to get my hands on this. Being that it was a young modern man trying to fill Arthur’s boots, I figured it would be something along the lines of the Kid Who Would be King. Sadly, I had to force myself to finish this book. It holds together as a story and there is plenty of sword fighting action and a lot of politics, but that is sadly all that there is to the book. While Avalon City is very scifi, the rest of the book is definitely stuck in the middle ages. The majority of the book is spent as Arthur rides horses around from castle to castle acquiring one young person, bearing a legendary magical weapon, stereotypically within his own late teens-early twenties age range per castle to join his crew (he visits 7 castles in this manner). This wouldn’t be so bad if each castle was different and the young people were colorful in their personalities. Sadly, they aren’t. The interior of each castle sounds just like the previous one, lorded over by the same weary king. And none of the young people that he gathers stands out from each other (except for possibly Elaine, the only magic wielder in the group), also apart from the first appearance of a character, they are never described again, so their appearance never stick in my mind. Even Arthur doesn’t stand out from the group. Everyone talks in the same stilted, rigid, formal speech, and that includes Arthur. There are no likes or dislikes or bits of personal tidbit detail in any of the characters and there are also no emotions expressed by any of the characters (outside of mourning), not even comradery, really. Most importantly to this Arthurian fan, there is next to no referencing anything Arthurian (aside from random Arthurian names assigned to locations, the lady of the lake. Merlin is a far cry from the original and practically a cameo, and Excalibur, of course, and Morgana who is mentioned rather centrally in the blurb doesn’t come in until near the end of the book). The ghouls are an obvious rip-off of the Ring Wraiths from Lord of the Rings (the black cloaks, and skeletal features). The politics honestly bores me, since it’s just about the various castles and kingdoms that I could care less about.
The descendants of Camelot must come together to save a planet. Four hundred and fifty years after the first Merlin and King Arthur, a new Merlin and Arthur must save the planet Avalon. Arthur is from Earth but is a descendant of the first King Arthur. Avalon is under attack by evil creatures wanting to kill and take over the planet. The current descendant of Merlin, a woman, knows that the only way to defeat the creatures is for a descendant of King Arthur to use Excalibur. Only a descendant can remove Excalibur from it’s stone. When she summons his descendant, imagine her surprise (and his too) when she brings a a 17 year old orphaned teenager from Earth. Arthur has grown up reading about, and admiring, King Arthur, Merlin, and Camelot. He joins the efforts to fight off the creatures. He takes Excalibur, but he and several companions have to travel to eleven other kingdoms to find the remaining magic weapons that were made from Excalibur. Along the way they will be tested, make new friends, and save everyone from an old foe who wants to use dark magic and take over the planet. I loved these young descendant of the former Knights of the Round Table. They were young but brave, and become good friends. I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review
Arthurian tales of retellings can be a true hit or miss but when you add in the sometimes over complicated third person style of writing you’re asking to fail
The clunky way the third person works in this story made it impossible for me to even finish chapter one let alone the whole thing
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