![]() ![]() The novel starts off graspably enough, in a YA-fiction mode, exploring the childhood traumas that drive two of its protagonists. But I found Ford’s prose deliciously readable-and, as we shall see, I had some additional help. And across all this time their motivations shift for uncertain reasons, and sometimes without their conscious knowledge. Their story-threads gather and separate and re-entwine with a vast gallery of other characters with varying connections to history. Zarf’s “strange, meandering, oblique” politely understates the book’s structure, a series of concisely presented but obscurely related adventures happening over the lifetimes of its four protagonists. Well, I enjoyed it a great deal, even though I spent much of my time struggling to follow the action. And love and pain and the attempt to do good in a hurt world.- Andrew Plotkin September 29, 2020 TDW is a strange, meandering, oblique alternate history with wizards and vampires and Richard III and Lorenzo de' Medici. ![]() Ford's _The Dragon Waiting_ is now available as an ebook in the usual places. I heard the news from a tweet by Andrew Plotkin, who sold it to my mood quite tidily: Ford’s 1983 masterpiece of alternate-history fantasy-and a book that took fourteen years to return to print, after the author’s untimely death threw his creative legacy into disarray. Tor Books has published a new edition of The Dragon Waiting, John M. ![]()
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