I can't help but feel that from this day until I die all books of the fantasy genre shall be be ranked in my mind according to Harry Potter and The Dragon Waiting. More about BookBrowse. "The Dragon Waiting" is set in a late mediaeval Europe which is mostly ruled by the Byzantine Empire, and in which Christianity and Islam never became the dominant religions that they were in our world at that time. Refresh and try again. There were moments when I really struggled to follow what occured, the intrigues are so complicated, and I often had difficulty connecting the episodes to the greater plot. This is a good book, but it’s not a great one and somehow, that leaves me more frustrated than I would have been if it had just been bad. In some respects I am the perfect audience for it --- it hits all of my sweet spots, including the Byzantine Empire, ancient religions and Richard III. 7 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. Author (s): John M. Ford. The book was called The Dragon Waiting, and it was written by the late science fiction and fantasy author John M. Ford. . Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of blood and magic"--Amazon.com. That being said, if these are. I rather wish I could read the longer MS, to see if some of the difficult bits were more fully explained.). The Dragon in Waiting is a Masque that masks the author's love of language, of libraries, of the wonderful, of the wondrous, and of the obscure. Do I have a son, or brothers? If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed. One main character is a beautiful young woman whose hair is entirely white: in the first chapter she kills a vampire with medical precision (the vampire is, as it happens, the Duke of Milan). I love it to pieces. Rereading this book caused me to clarify some of my muddy thinking with respect to wish-fulfillment characters and stories and those that try to present the world as it should be, could be, might be with a little imagination and grace. Furthermore, his alternate history of a pagan Europe dominated by a greedily expansionist Byzantine Empire (also there are wizards and vampires) is expertly rendered and well thought out, even if it doesn't always seem plausible (essentially, Ford starts changing history in the fourth century, and yet expects us to believe that, for instance, the Golden Age of Florence in the fifteenth century occurs in much the same fashion in his universe as it did in real life). Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of blood and magic. 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