Patricia A. McKillip is the beloved author of twenty-seven fantasy
novels, including The Riddle-Master of Hed, Harpist in the Wind,
Ombria in Shadow, Solstice Wood, and The Sorceress and the Cygnet.
She received the inaugural World Fantasy Award for The Forgotten
Beasts of Eld and later received the World Fantasy lifetime
achievement award. She is also a three-time Mythopoeic Award
winner. She recently published the novel Kingfisher and the
collection Dreams of Distant Shores. McKillip lives in Oregon.
Internationally-bestselling author Gail Carriger's debut novel,
Soulless, won the ALA's Alex Award. Her wildly popular steampunk
Parasolverse contains multiple series including the Parasol
Protectorate, which was also published as a graphic novel. Carriger
has received the Steampunk Chronicle's Reader's Choice YA Award,
the Prix Julia Verlanger, the Elbakin Award, and a Starburner Award
in Literature. Her novels have been published in eighteen languages
and made the New York Times list thirteen times. She lives in
California.
Praise for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld "Rich and regal."
--New York Times "Before Daenerys was Mother of Dragons, Sybel
commanded beasts of all kinds. McKillip offers up a powerful
character full of passion, determination, obsession, and love."
--A. C. Wise, author of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories "I
admit it: I have been seduced by Patricia A McKillip's The
Forgotten Beasts of Eld . . . gorgeous, lyrical prose."
--Guardian "With its elegant language and lovingly rendered
heroine, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has won the love of readers
young and old alike -- it's a book that feels richer with every
rereading."
--Reedsy, The 60 Best Fantasy Books of All Time "Like the [Lord of
the] Rings trilogy or the Earthsea books . . . This magical moonlit
fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense,
adventure, richness of concept and language and--perhaps rarest of
all in romantic fantasy--a sly sense of humor."
--Publishers Weekly "This is what great literature looks like:
bold, self-incisive, powerfully feminist without drawing attention
to anything but the prose, the characters, and the story."
--Usman T. Malik, author of The Pauper Prince and The Eucalyptus
Jinn "This is my favorite book of all time. If I had to pick a
desert island book, it would be this one."
--Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol
Protectorate "Rich and lyric prose."
--Bruce Coville, author of the Dragon Chronicles "A truly great,
concentrated, thoughtful, vicious, exalted fantasy, and everyone
should read it."
--Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo Award-winning Craft Sequence
series "A stunning masterpiece of fantasy. 10/10 stars."
--Fantasy Cafe "Gorgeous, evocative, and fragile."
--Kirkus "An extraordinary book, and McKillip deserves all the
praise she received for creating such a masterful, brave,
intricately crafted universe. 10/10 stars."
--Starburst "Intimate, gorgeous, quiet and deep, The Forgotten
Beasts of Eld remains as resonant as ever."
--Tor.com "Wise and deep and lucid and crisp."
--Antick Musings "Fear, hope, love, hatred, and all that makes us
human assume magical forms in McKillip's characteristically
gorgeous prose."
--E. Lily Yu, author of "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist
Bees" "In some ways, it feels more like a dream than like a novel,
more like a spell cast over the reader than like prose. It is
delicious and wise--a true classic."
--Susan Fletcher, author of Dragon's Milk and Shadow Spinner "More
than 40 years after it was first published, McKillip's World
Fantasy Award-winner is unquestionably a classic of the genre, and
it reads as timelessly as ever in this new print and ebook
edition."
--Barnes & Noble, Week's New Sci-Fi & Fantasy spotlight "Soaring
prose, lyrics to songs our hearts have forgotten they knew how to
sing."
--Seattle Review of Books "A remarkable work of literature."
--The Royal Library "Whether you read this magical weaving as a
straight fantasy or look deeper and call it allegory, I guarantee
you will fall under its spell."
--Fresh Fiction "McKillip's strange, enchanting stand-alone fantasy
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has been reissued...the writing is
simply beautiful."
--Washington Post "A magical reading experience."
--Foreword Reviews "Full of magic, wonder and fantastic
creatures."
--Speculative Herald "This exquisitely written story has something
for almost every reader: adventure, romance and a resonant
mythology that reveals powerful truths about human nature."
--Amazon "It feels ageless, eternal, light and perfect like a
star."
--SF Site "The best fantasy novel of the year and perhaps of the
decade.
--Locus "Patricia McKillip weaves an incredibly rich, poetic, wise
and mystical story, holding her readers spellbound."
--St. Louis Dispatch-Post "5/5 stars. This is one of those books
that can't come with enough high recommendation."
--Seattle Review of Books
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