I bought it on the strength of that series. It won a number of awards, and forms part of Gollancz’s series, Fantasy Masterworks.
McKillip (McKillip) published this book when she was very young, 26, back in 1974. Consider me ignorant but curious – help me if you know more and wish to share. I’m hoping these posts will encourage both myself to read wider, and also to engender dialogue about what fantasy is and could be and has been. What I haven’t read a lot of are the classics of the genre, or books written by women, or any group that isn’t a white male sharing their power fantasy. In short – not enough, and what I have read is mostly male, mostly white, mostly epic fantasy. A bit of Joe Abercrombie, a touch of Scott Lynch, a dash of Gene Wolfe (just a dash). I have read a number of books, but it’s all the same books that anyone else with a passing interest has read. I am not well versed in fantasy as a genre. I have begun this Let’s Read in order to expand my reading further into fantasy, particularly fantasy that is considered classic by the experts in the medium itself.
Today I am reading Chapter 1, which takes us from pages 1 through 21.
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