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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

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19 Dec 2023 - 18 Jan 2024

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Prizes: Print (1 copy), Digital (3 copies) — Available in 177 countries

fiction fantasy young adult
adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

256 pages | first published 1974

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Tachyon Publications is giving away 1 physical copy (US only) and 3 digital copies (worldwide) of Patricia A. McKillip’s classic World Fantasy Award-winning novel THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This special edition includes a new introduction by Hugo Award Winner Marjorie Liu and original art by the acclaimed Stephanie Law.

“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

“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

“A truly great, concentrated, thoughtful, vicious, exalted fantasy, and everyone should read it.”
—Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo Award-winning Craft Sequence series

“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

Book description

Fifty years ago, the soon-to-be celebrated young author Patricia A. McKillip (the Riddle-Master trilogy) penned the tale of an iron-willed young sorceress. Brought vividly to life by McKillip's gorgeously lush prose, Sybel, living with her captiva...

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Format: Digital

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