![]() ![]() Despite the title and the cover this is a long long way from your usual commercial fantasy fare. It’s the story of an odd little assortment of people who are thrown together – including a sorcerer, a female doctor, and an artilleryman afflicted with vampirism. It involves historical figures like Lorenzo de Medici and Richard III of England, and the fun lies in the way Ford has changed history in subtle ways, subtle ways which sometimes have spectacular results. And there’s magic, although not an enormous amount of it. ![]() Is there a dragon? Well there’s the anticipation of one. The story takes place in northern Italy and in Britain. In this world Byzantium is still immensely powerful. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting is an alternate history with some fantasy elements, set in a fifteenth century that is in some ways very like our own and in other ways quite different. ![]() Another early review of mine, previously posted in fantasywithbite. ![]()
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