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The Forest of Peldain

1985 novel by Barrington J. Bayley

Field	Value
name	The Forest of Peldain
image	File:TheForestOfPeldain.jpg
image_caption	First edition
author	Barrington J. Bayley
cover_artist	Ken W. Kelly
country	United States
language	English
genre	Science fiction
publisher	DAW Books
release_date	August 1985
media_type	Print (Paperback)
pages	223
isbn	0-88677-068-8
oclc	12433450

The Forest of Peldain is the twelfth science fiction novel by Barrington J. Bayley. Set on the water world of the Hundred Islands, the Arelian empire attempts to seize control of the last island, Peldain, which within its dense forests contains an independent kingdom and an ancient secret.

Literary significance and reception

Rhys Hughes regarded Bayley as having "slackened off" after The Zen Gun, concluding that Vancean stylings of The Forest of Peldain were "not a sustainable effort."{{cite web |url-status = dead

Andy Robertson, reviewing the novel in Interzone, dismissed the book as "[a] fairly minor potboiler."{{cite web

References

[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4543 ''The Forest of Peldain''] at [[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]

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