The Legend of Broken, Carr - C

                                         Undoubtedly, I saw the author's name and downloaded the book without reading the  Times review. That is a habit I need to break.  This book is a science fiction/fantasy presented in the cloak of a history of a portion of northern Germany late in the first millennium. There is even correspondence from Edward Gibbon introducing it to Edmund Burke as a recent (1790's) find of a manuscript.  If you think you might wish to try it, the Wall St. Journal review recommends that you not only read all 651 pages, but the 80 pages of notes.