Description: "[ The Scholars of Night ] should have been marketed like The Name of the Rose . You needed to go, 'We have a great writer who is really fucking brilliant and he has written a book that combines high and low culture.'" --Neil Gaiman "So easy to get lured into the world of death and double-dealing. Quite an artistic job we have here by Ford, crafty and complex." -- The MYSTERY FANcier , Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 1989. "There's a slight Tom Clancy air to the plot, but it's unmistakably a John M. Ford book. It's a technothriller in the same way that The Final Reflection is a Star Trek novel--it has all the requisite elements put together in more or less the usual way, but everything ends up at an odd angle, creating something that is entirely different." -- Science Blogs "A wonderful kaleidoscope of the imagination." --Poul Anderson "Extraordinary...both original and dazzling." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer PRAISE FOR THE DRAGON WAITING "An unfolding cabinet of wonders. . . Provokes that rare thrill that one gets from the work of Gene Wolfe, or John Crowley, or Ursula K. Le Guin." -- Slate "Lots of historical fantasies and alternate histories play games with history, but most of them are playing tic-tac-toe while The Dragon Waiting is playing three-dimensional Go." --Jo Walton "A glittering tapestry of passion and betrayal, magic and intrigue. Exhilarating." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "An exceedingly fine, intelligent, powerful novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Rich and splendid." -- Kirkus Reviews binet of wonders. . . Provokes that rare thrill that one gets from the work of Gene Wolfe, or John Crowley, or Ursula K. Le Guin." -- Slate "Lots of historical fantasies and alternate histories play games with history, but most of them are playing tic-tac-toe while The Dragon Waiting is playing three-dimensional Go." --Jo Walton "A glittering tapestry of passion and betrayal, magic and intrigue. Exhilarating." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "An exceedingly fine, intelligent, powerful novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Rich and splendid." -- Kirkus Reviews binet of wonders. . . Provokes that rare thrill that one gets from the work of Gene Wolfe, or John Crowley, or Ursula K. Le Guin." -- Slate "Lots of historical fantasies and alternate histories play games with history, but most of them are playing tic-tac-toe while The Dragon Waiting is playing three-dimensional Go." --Jo Walton "A glittering tapestry of passion and betrayal, magic and intrigue. Exhilarating." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "An exceedingly fine, intelligent, powerful novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Rich and splendid." -- Kirkus Reviews binet of wonders. . . Provokes that rare thrill that one gets from the work of Gene Wolfe, or John Crowley, or Ursula K. Le Guin." -- Slate "Lots of historical fantasies and alternate histories play games with history, but most of them are playing tic-tac-toe while The Dragon Waiting is playing three-dimensional Go." --Jo Walton "A glittering tapestry of passion and betrayal, magic and intrigue. Exhilarating." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "An exceedingly fine, intelligent, powerful novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Rich and splendid." -- Kirkus Reviews on and betrayal, magic and intrigue. Exhilarating." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "An exceedingly fine, intelligent, powerful novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Rich and splendid." -- Kirkus Reviews

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