Title: The Folk of the Air
Title Record # 1924
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Date: 1986-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Sam Farrell
Language: English
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Author: Peter S. Beagle
Date: 1986-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Sam Farrell
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Del Rey first edition: "When Farrell returned to Avicenna after years away, he found his oldest friend Ben living with an unattractive older woman named Sia. Ben and Farrell's girlfriend, Julie were also mixed up with the League of Archaic Pleasures - a group that playacted the events and manners of medieval chivalry, sometimes too seriously.
Nothing was quite as it seemed. Sia's ancient house developed rooms that impossibly appeared and disappeared. Apparently helpless, Sia still had enormous powers that no human could defy when she chose to exert her will. And some members of the League were not playacting - they were the medieval characters they portrayed. Even mild-mannered Ben was sometimes possessed by a Ninth Century viking, driven to madness by the modern world he could not understand.
Attending a League revel with Julie, Farrell was amused by the claim of a fifteen-year-old Aiffe that she was a witch. But later he saw her, attempting to summon a demon, conjure out of the air the form of Nicholas Bonner, who had been sent to limbo five centuries before!
With Bonner's skills added to Aiffe's talents, the pair soon made chaos of the League's mock war. But Bonner's real goal was the defeat of Sia, with whom he seemed to have a mysterious connection.
Gradually, Farrell realized that Bonner represented a growing evil such as the Twentieth Century had never known. Only Sia's power's stood against it. But Sia had retreated into a room that could not exist, hiding in illusion."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Win | 1987 Mythopoeic | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award |
6 | 1987 Locus | Best Fantasy Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Folk of the Air | 1986-09-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-33782-4 | $16.95?$: US dollar |
330 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Barclay Shaw | |
The Folk of the Air | 1987-09-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Headline | 0-7472-0052-1 | £10.95?£: UK pound |
336 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
The Folk of the Air | 1987-09-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC | 11279 | $5.50?$: US dollar |
279 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Barclay Shaw | |
The Folk of the Air | 1987-09-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Headline | 0-7472-3068-4 | £4.95?£: UK pound |
330 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Das Volk der Lüfte | 1988-00-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Klett-Cotta (Hobbit Presse) | 3-608-95528-3 | DM 36.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
401 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
The Folk of the Air | 1988-01-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-34699-8 | $4.50?$: US dollar |
375 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Romas | |
The Folk of the Air | 1988-01-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-34699-8 | C$5.95?C$: Canadian dollar |
375 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Romas | |
The Folk of the Air | 1988-08-00 | Peter S. Beagle | Headline | 0-7472-3138-9 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
330 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1986) in Locus, #310 November 1986
- Review by Charles de Lint (1987) in Fantasy Review, April 1987
- Review by John C. Bunnell (1987) in Dragon Magazine, May 1987
- Review by Baird Searles (1987) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1987
- Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1987) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, September-October 1987
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1987) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1987
- Review by Maureen Kincaid Speller [as by Maureen Porter] (1987) in Vector 141
- Review by David Transue [as by David L. Transue] (1987) in Thrust, #28, Fall 1987
- Review by M. John Harrison (1987) in Foundation, #38 Winter 1986/87 , reprinted in:
- Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison (2005)
- Review by Orson Scott Card (1988) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1988
- Review by Mary Gentle (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #70
- Review by Charles de Lint (1988) in Short Form, February 1988
- Review by Andy Sawyer (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #74
- Review by Phyllis McDonald (1988) in Interzone, #23 Spring 1988