

Depending how you count this is either the first or second volume in a Dying Earth pastiche series featuring the giant hero Ganelon Silvermane. In this one he wakes from a long sleep, apprentices to a magician, makes some friends, and fights a lot. It's nothing very memorable: the prose is stilted, the story episodic, and the episodes mostly forgettable. But it has a sense of humor and is fun enough that I'm not dreading the next.