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Patricia A McKillip
(Patricia Anne McKillip)
(1948 - 2022)Patricia Anne McKillip was born in Salem, Oregon (USA) on February 29, 1948. She started writing at 14, and according to the notes in the Riddlemaster trilogy, “she has been writing ever since – except for a brief detour when she thought she would be a concert pianist.” The House on Parchment Street has a neat quote about how she started writing – “In a fit of boredom one day when she was fourteen, she sat down in front of a window overlooking a stately medieval church and its graveyard and produced a thirty-page fairy tale.”
She won the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Locus Award in 1980 for Harpist in the Wind, and the Balrog award in 1985 in the short fiction category for “A Troll and Two Roses”.
Author Patricia A. McKillip, 74, died May 6, 2022.
She won the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Locus Award in 1980 for Harpist in the Wind, and the Balrog award in 1985 in the short fiction category for “A Troll and Two Roses”.
Author Patricia A. McKillip, 74, died May 6, 2022.
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy
Series
Quest of the Riddle-Master
1. The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976)
2. Heir of Sea and Fire (1977)
3. Harpist in the Wind (1979)
1. The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976)
2. Heir of Sea and Fire (1977)
3. Harpist in the Wind (1979)
Novels
The House on Parchment Street (1973)
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
The Night Gift (1976)
Stepping from the Shadows (1982)
Fool's Run (1987)
The Changeling Sea (1988)
The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995)
Song for the Basilisk (1998)
The Tower at Stony Wood (2000)
Ombria in Shadow (2002)
In the Forests of Serre (2003)
Alphabet of Thorn (2004)
Od Magic (2005)
The Bell at Sealey Head (2008)
The Bards of Bone Plain (2010)
Wonders of the Invisible World (2012)
Kingfisher (2016)
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
The Night Gift (1976)
Stepping from the Shadows (1982)
Fool's Run (1987)
The Changeling Sea (1988)
The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995)
Song for the Basilisk (1998)
The Tower at Stony Wood (2000)
Ombria in Shadow (2002)
In the Forests of Serre (2003)
Alphabet of Thorn (2004)
Od Magic (2005)
The Bell at Sealey Head (2008)
The Bards of Bone Plain (2010)
Wonders of the Invisible World (2012)
Kingfisher (2016)
Collections
To Weave a Web of Magic (2004) (with others)
Harrowing the Dragon (2005)
Dreams of Distant Shores (2016)
Harrowing the Dragon (2005)
Dreams of Distant Shores (2016)
Novellas and Short Stories
Omnibus editions
Patricia A McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume One (2015)
Patricia A McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume Two (2015)
Patricia A McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume Two (2015)
Series contributed to
Anthologies containing stories by Patricia A McKillip
Elsewhere Two (1982)
Imaginary Lands (1985)
Full Spectrum 2 (1989)
Tales of the Witch World 3 (1990)
Strange Dreams (1993)
Christmas Forever (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Xanadu 2 (1994)
The Armless Maiden (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Sisters in Fantasy 2 (1996)
Year's Best SF (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Essential Bordertown (1998)
Not of Woman Born (1999)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
Imaginary Lands (1985)
Full Spectrum 2 (1989)
Tales of the Witch World 3 (1990)
Strange Dreams (1993)
Christmas Forever (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Xanadu 2 (1994)
The Armless Maiden (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Sisters in Fantasy 2 (1996)
Year's Best SF (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Essential Bordertown (1998)
Not of Woman Born (1999)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
Short stories
| The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath (1982) | |||
| The Old Woman and the Storm (1985) | |||
| A Doorkeeper of Khaat (1989) | |||
| Fortune's Children (1990) | |||
| Lady of the Skulls (1993) | |||
| The Snow Queen (1993) | |||
| Xmas Cruise (1993) | |||
| Transmutations (1994) | |||
| The Lion and the Lark (1995) | |||
| Wonders of the Invisible World (1995) | |||
| The Witches of Junket (1996) | |||
| Oak Hill (1998) | |||
| A Gift to Be Simple (1999) | |||
| Toad (1999) | |||
| The Twelve Dancing Princesses (2000) |
Awards
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Patricia A McKillip recommends
Saint Death's Daughter (2022)
(Saint Death, book 1)
C S E Cooney
"The writing is dense with poetry, festooned to the eyelids -- occasionally to the gills and other body-parts -- with fantastic imagery that comes together in the end in unexpected and entirely satisfying ways."
The Four Profound Weaves (2020)
(Birdverse, book 1)
R B Lemberg
"R. B. Lemberg’s The Four Profound Weaves tells the journey of a pair of aged and appealing wanderers searching for magic, art, identity, and peace. Thought-challenging points-of-view weave together stark violence, intricate powers, and the musings of long and complicated lives. The Four Profound Weaves contains imagery that glows on the page."
The Emerald Circus (2017)
(Circus , book 1)
Jane Yolen
"Jane Yolen’s The Emerald Circus is full of marvels. She introduces familiar acts and actors into her rings and then tricks us into seeing them from complex, unexpected angles. She turns toads into witches, Sir Lancelot into a 600 year old monk, Dorothy into a tightrope walker, and Emily Dickinson into a spacefarer. The stories themselves change between one reading and another, always revealing more, always at a different slant than before, in language that is rich, unholy, and, like the tales themselves, beautifully unpredictable. From Snow Queen to spaceship, The Emerald Circus is a delight."
Except the Queen (2010)
Midori Snyder and Jane Yolen
"Fast-paced and powerful... lovely, unpredictable."
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