Reading “The Forest of Forever” by Thomas Burnett Swann

Thomas Burnett Swann’s The Forest of Forever (1971) is the author's fourth novel, a prequel to his first novel, Day of the Minotaur (1966). It's a mediocre and somewhat messy return to story of Eunostos on Crete but offers some interesting ideas about gender in Swann's oeuvre.

Reading “Day of the Minotaur” by Thomas Burnett Swann

Thomas Burnett Swann’s Day of the Minotaur (1966) is his first novel, a sometimes messy, sometimes saccharine, sometimes poignant novel about the final days of the prehuman mythic beings as human civilization pushes them to extinction.