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“You can pick up almost any Patricia McKillip book and have an amazing time. She’s a brilliant writer. I picked this one, which is quite an early McKillip, partly because it has that status as a classic: it’s been reprinted in the Fantasy Masterworks, it won the first World Fantasy Award…She’s…a good representative of the fantasy tradition that draws more strongly on fairy tale, which I think sometimes gets blocked by the epic or romance-inflected tradition. The central character, Sybel, has very powerful magic, but she’s grown up with her forgotten beasts and her almost silent father in the woods, and has the social skills you would expect from that..McKillip writes great magical beasts. The greedy dragon, the amazing falcon, the wise boar.” Read more...
