Much more recently, the Great God's War sequence beginning with Seventh Decimate ( 2017) and The War Within ( 2019) returns to the high-fantasy venues of his best-known work, with several volumes – as "decimate" designates either a tithe or an aggregation in ten parts – to come. These mirror-gateways allow a Science and Sorcery crossover that transfers a futuristically armed sf space-warrior into the story's fantasy setting. In Mordant's Need, a fantasy diptych comprising The Mirror of Her Dreams ( 1986) and A Man Rides Through ( 1987), characters shift between worlds via gates which consist of very precisely ground and curved mirrors and arguably work according to sf conventions governing Matter Transmission. He was the winner of the John W Campbell Award for most promising new writer in 1979. (1947- ) US author who remains best known for his three formidably ambitious Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever high-fantasy sequences, the first two of which established him as a Fantasy writer of central importance in the 1970s and 1980s.
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