John Varley, Author, Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $22.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-441-00558-1
Sparky Valentine grew up on stage. He'd memorized all of Shakespeare by age six and was the star of a hit TV show at eight. His father, actor John Barrymore Valentine, was famous throughout the solar system. But John was also an abusive monster who...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $18.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-441-00211-5
In what is probably her best-known work, The Riddlemasters of Hed, McKillip combined shape-shifting, riddle-solving and the desire for wild and unbridled power into a richly fantastic tale. Here, she returns to those themes, adding a strand of the...
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Patricia A. McKillip. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-218-0
McKillip (Wonders of the Invisible World), winner of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, collects nine dazzling shorter pieces (both originals and reprints) in this outstanding collection. The brief, creepy “Weird” opens the volume,...
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Patricia A. McKillip. Ace, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-27176-6
McKillip's typically gorgeous prose shines as it serves the plot of this complex and witty story of contemporary knights and post-Celtic deities in a fantastical version of our world. When Pierce decides to leave his tiny village to seek out his...
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Patricia A. McKillip. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61696-087-2
Endlessly astonishing and impressive fantasist McKillip (The Bards of Bone Plain) travels the shadowy twilight realm between worlds and returns with the raw stuff of dreams. An angel grapples with deceit and conspiracies while recording Cotton...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-553-09674-3
The second novel in Brian Froud's Faerielands series lives up to its subtitle (taken from The Tempest). Megan, a dreamy young artist, resides in a Pacific Northwest coastal village with her pragmatic lover, Jonah, who runs a curio shop. When Megan's
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $17.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-441-12628-6
In this adequate but lackluster follow-up to The Sorceress and the Cygnet , McKillip returns to the magical towers of Ro Holding, the Hold of the Cygnet, and its denizens: the formidable Holder, Lauro Ro; her enigmatic daughter and heir, the...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $17.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-441-77564-4
More than 1000 years ago the Gold King, Dancer, Blind Lady and Warlock fought the Cygnet, lost and were banished. Commoners put their story in the constellations to remember it. Ro Holding has the sign of the Cygnet and rules the other Holds, which...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-00733-2
Like her previous Winter Rose and Song for the Basilisk, McKillip's latest bardic fantasy, a tale full of fierce longing and bright courage, the mystery of honor and the enigmas of love, issues comes out of the Celtic twilight at the edge of the...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-00334-1
Woods-wise and free-spirited, Rois Melior is the opposite of her sensible sister, Laurel. But both Rois, who narrates, and Laurel fall under the spell of the stranger who enters their world. Decades ago, according to village gossip, Tearle Lynn...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-441-00447-8
In most of McKillip's novels (Winter Rose, etc.) and short stories, this veteran author, a World Fantasy Award winner (for Forgotten Beasts of Eld, 1975), uses words in precisely the same way her mages do, to shape images and create fantastic...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $22.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-441-00895-7
Harking back to some of her earliest works (namely The Forgotten Beasts of Eld), McKillip offers up a ghostly tale of human emotions gone astray in a city that lives and dies in endless cycles. Greed, despair, grief and avarice have all taken their...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-77567-5
In this fantasy, the banished Gold King tries to fight a ruling family. ``With strong, archetypal characters and a powerful command of symbolism, McKillip depicts the human conflict between the desire for power and the need for love,'' said PW. (Jan.
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author Atheneum Books $12.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-689-31436-0
The sea has taken everything away from Periwinkle; it has drowned her fisherman father and left her mother barely able to cope. So Periwinkle, a chambermaid at the inn of a small fishing village, decides to hex the sea. It works surprisingly well,...
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Patricia McKillip, Ace, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-01957-1
World Fantasy Award–winner McKillip (The Bell at Sealey Head) offers a rich, resonant story of poetry, riddles, mystery, and magic. Phelan Cle never wanted to be a bard—that's his decidedly unmusical father's ambition for him—but now that he's about
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-441-01630-3
An unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (Od Magic
). Inside the baffling Aislinn House, young chambermaid Emma, opening an ordinary cabinet door, might find a rack of
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $22.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-441-01366-1
World Fantasy Award–winner McKillip revisits the setting of her masterful novel Winter Rose
(1996) in this compelling contemporary fantasy. Summoned home for her grandfather's funeral, Sylvia Lynn arrives with the intention of leaving as...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $23.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-441-01360-9
As shown in this excellent story collection, World Fantasy Award–winner McKillip (Od Magic
) can take the most common fantasy elements—dragons and bards, sorcerers and shape-shifters—and reshape them in surprising and resonant ways.
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $22.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-441-01248-0
Delicately skirting the edge of preachiness, World Fantasy Award–winner McKillip (Alphabet
of Thorn
) demonstrates once again her exquisite grasp of the fantasist's craft in this slender stand-alone novel. Generations ago, the seemingly...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-441-01130-8
Those who have bemoaned the death of the true fairy tale will be delighted by this charming foray from World Fantasy Award–winner McKillip (Ombria in Shadow
). She skillfully weaves together two eras and two sets of believable characters to...
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Patricia A. McKillip, Author . Ace $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-01011-0
In a twist on the Biblical adage "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," McKillip (Ombria in Shadow) presents a mystical, eerie fantasy about the flight from love—and the haphazard progress toward love. The efforts of
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