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Patricia A. McKillip

    29 de febrero de 1948 – 6 de mayo de 2022

    Patricia McKillip es una autora estadounidense de fantasía y ciencia ficción, distinguida por su prosa lírica y delicada y su meticulosa atención al detalle y la caracterización. Sus narrativas a menudo se desarrollan en escenarios que recuerdan a la Edad Media, donde los personajes encuentran poderes misteriosos y orígenes inciertos. La música juega frecuentemente un papel vital en su obra, junto con las complejas dinámicas del amor y el desacuerdo familiar. La voz única de McKillip profundiza en temas de identidades ocultas y el encanto de lo desconocido.

    The Book of Atrix Wolfe
    Fool's Run
    Riddle-Master
    Forgotten Beasts of Eld
    The Cygnet and the Firebird
    The Forgotten Beasts of Eld: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
    • Sybel, an heiress to a lineage of powerful wizards, lives in isolation within her enchanting mansion, surrounded by magical beasts. Each creature serves a unique role, from the treasure-seeking dragon to the vengeful falcon. Her quest for the elusive Liralen leads her to a soldier who brings an infant, awakening her to the complexities of love, betrayal, and untapped power in a world where magic and humanity intertwine. This journey challenges her solitude and reveals the deeper connections between her enchanted existence and the human realm.

      The Forgotten Beasts of Eld: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
      4,4
    • The Cygnet and the Firebird

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Following the novel The Sorceress and the Cygnet, McKillip's characters, the sorceress Nyx and her cousin Meguet, are plunged into the mystery of the firebird, whose haunting cry transforms objects at random. To uncover the identity of the legendary creature who turns into a nameless man at sunrise, they are swept to the edge of the world.

      The Cygnet and the Firebird
      4,4
    • Forgotten Beasts of Eld

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD is a spellbinding tale of chilling sorcery, human complexities, and dynastic war. Sybel is just sixteen when she is given a baby to raise. Born and brought up on Eld Mountain, with only the fantastic creatures called there by wizardry as playmates, she knows nothing of humankind . . . until the baby awakens emotions she never knew she had. And when Coren, the man who brought the baby to Sybel, returns to Eld, her serenity is shattered once again.

      Forgotten Beasts of Eld
      4,3
    • For over twenty years, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. Now at last her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy– The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind –long out of print, is collected in one volume.It is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time–the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished...but where magic is waiting to be reborn.

      Riddle-Master
      4,2
    • Somewhere in a far galaxy a being inconceivably alien is surging tumultuously from an unimaginable womb. In a solitary cell on the Underworld, the vast prison-satellite in perpetual Earth-orbit, Terra Viridian is tormented by a vision, an imperative which has already driven her to an insane bloodletting. On an Earth embalmed in peace by a ubiquitous bureaucracy, the Magician weaves his musical spells and tries to close his mind to the thoughts of others. - just three links in a chain stretching across space and time towards a testing as awesome as it is unpredictable.

      Fool's Run
      3,9
    • The Book of Atrix Wolfe

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A dark fairytale of love and magic by a World Fantasy Award-winning author.

      The Book of Atrix Wolfe
      4,0
    • Riddle-Master - 1: The Riddle-Master of Hed

      • 229 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      A magical tale of a world where the wizards have disappeared, but the lore of the riddle-masters hold sway; of the prophecy that linked the Starbearer to the end of the age; and of Morgon, reluctant Starbearer, and the quest he must undertake in the distant fastness of the Erlenstar Mountain.

      Riddle-Master - 1: The Riddle-Master of Hed
      4,0
    • Ace Fantasy: Dragonfield and Other Stories

      • 241 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Stories deal with dragons, kings, outlaws, dream weavers, an alien poet, a frustrated musician, a water spirit, mermaids, demons, and an enchanted dove

      Ace Fantasy: Dragonfield and Other Stories
      3,9
    • The Tower at Stony Wood

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A knight named Cyan Dag embarks on a perilous quest after learning from a mysterious bard that his king has married a false queen, hidden by ancient sorcery. Driven by honor and loyalty, he aims to rescue the true queen from her tower prison, thwart impending war, and restore magic to a land in decline. This adventure intertwines themes of loyalty, bravery, and the struggle against dark forces, as Cyan confronts challenges that test his resolve and the fate of his kingdom.

      The Tower at Stony Wood
      3,9
    • The sorceress and the cygnet

      • 248 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Corleu, one of the Wayfolk, must find the Heart of the Cygnet, a long-lost treasure that is his only hope for freeing his friends from an unearthly swamp

      The sorceress and the cygnet
      3,9