Davidson, Avram. THE PHOENIX AND THE MIRROR. Garden City: Doubleday Company, Inc., Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Davidson on the front free endpaper: "For Cuyler W. Brooks Jr / with the compliments / of the Author, / Avram Davidson." "Wit, ironic charm and erudition rather than passion characterize the fiction of Avram Davidson. Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines. They are wonderful. Now his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Poul. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as “one of the.
Editions for The Phoenix and the Mirror: (Mass Market Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition. A Landmark Fantasy Adventure. Inspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil - not quite the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured by the medieval imagination: hero, alchemist, and sorcerer www.doorway.ru Award winner Avram Davidson has mingled fact with fantasy, turned history askew. A Landmark Fantasy Adventure. Inspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil—not quit the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured by by the medieval imagination: hero, alchemist, and sorcerer extroaordinaire Hugo Award winner Avram Davidson has mingled fact with fantasy, turned history askew.
Avram Davidson has books on Goodreads with ratings. Avram Davidson’s most popular book is The Phoenix and the Mirror. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from to His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author". Avram Davidson was an American. Davidson, Avram. THE PHOENIX AND THE MIRROR. Garden City: Doubleday Company, Inc., Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Davidson on the front free endpaper: "For Cuyler W. Brooks Jr / with the compliments / of the Author, / Avram Davidson." "Wit, ironic charm and erudition rather than passion characterize the fiction of Avram Davidson.
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