![]() ![]() ![]() Mythago Wood won the British Science Fiction award, the World Fantasy award and, in French translation, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. (In later books the psychologist father of the main character is revealed to have studied with Carl Jung.) The mythagos of the title are beautiful, sometimes deadly personifications of myth drawn from subconscious snatches of the stories we have been told about characters such as Robin Hood and Herne the Hunter – not the figures we know, but their earlier forms. It is a place impossible to map, one that defies attempts to catalogue, photograph or constrain it. Set in the late 1940s, in a small Hertfordshire forest that has been undisturbed since the last ice age, where time flows more slowly and the forest protects itself by disorientating those who try to enter, Mythago Wood is a history, not of the British Isles, but of our pre-Christian, shamanistic subconscious. ![]()
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