- Fiction, fantasy, general
Stylistically rooted in fairy tale and mythology, McKillip explores imperceptible landscapes in these stories. There are princesses dancing with dead suitors, a knight in love with an official of exotic lineage, and fortune's fool stealing into the present instead of the future.
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Grave, open-ended, contemplative and cool.
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Patricia A. McKillip
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Tachyon, Tachyon Publications
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616961015
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Patricia Anne McKillip is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels. She grew up in Oregon and England. She received a BA in English in 1971 and an MA in 1973. She is a past winner of the World Fantasy Award and Locus Award, and she lives in Oregon. McKillip's stories usually take place in a setting similar to the Middle Ages. There are forests, castles, and lords or kings, minstrels, tinkers and wizards. Her writing usually puts her characters in situations involving mysterious powers that they don't understand.
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