Other favourites, over the years, include The Changeling Sea (1988), Ombria in Shadow (2002), and Solstice Wood (2006.) Most recently, in 2016, I was charmed all over again by Kingfisher and the creation of a world in which Arthurian-style knights drive cars and carry cellphones. And the Riddlemaster series (which includes Heir of Sea and Fire and Harpist in the Wind respectively) was swiftly joined on the bookshelf by The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. That first encounter set a trend, which has endured from that day to this. As recently as last year, I posted (again) on rereading The Riddlemaster of Hed - which was the very first Patricia McKillip novel I encountered. She wrote many books, so some are very old friends now. My love and enthusiasm for Patricia McKillip’s work has always centered on her “gorgeous words”, sympathetic and identifiable characters, and the wonder and delight of the worlds created with each new story. Whenever I get asked about writers I admire, Patricia McKillip is always on the list - and what we love, as I know I’ve said here before, we generally aspire to emulate. What I would like to celebrate today is how much I love her work and the extent of her writing’s influence on my own. LocusMag has an obituary, here, that charts her literary contribution, and OregonLive also features her career, here. I have learned with great sadness of the passing of renowned Fantasy author, Patricia McKillip, on May 6.
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