With a new introduction by Scott Lynch, New York Times-bestselling author of The Lies of Locke Lamora. Fords The Dragon Waiting is an alternate history with some fantasy elements. Ford, an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet, whose work was held in high regard by peers ranging from Neil Gaiman to Robert Jordan to Jo Walton to Roger Zelazny, alongside innumerable others. Another early review of mine, previously posted in fantasywithbite. Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium, striving to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester-and make him Richard III.Īvailable for the first time in over two decades, The Dragon Waiting begins Tor’s program to reissue the work of the late John M. The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen.-Gene Wolfe In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter. In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate: A noble Byzantine mercenary a female Florentine physician an ageless Welsh wizard and Sforza, the uncanny Duke. But this medieval world is dominated by the undiminished Byzantine Empire. The Wars of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England, Lorenzo de' Medici's court shines brilliantly, and Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza plots in Milan.

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