![]() ![]() ![]() The fourth Monkey Queen book, A Tiding Of Magpies, tried to pull the same trick Hughart did with reworking the Qi Xi/Tanabata legend, and I suspect you could feel his style in my words and ideas. It’s not a perfect book, and I can see some problematic elements in it now, but it was my favorite novel ever at one time, and it may still be.īarry Hughart’s writing was a big influence on mine when I started writing novels, possibly one of the biggest. His novels were set in “an ancient China that never was.” The main characters were the naive farm boy Number Ten Ox and Master Li, “a sage with a slight flaw in character.” They traversed China, unraveling ancient mysteries and often leaving chaos in their wake.īridge Of Birds was a wonderful book, blending Chinese myth and folklore with moments of comedy, tragedy, suspense, horror and beauty. He only published three books, but the first one, Bridge Of Birds, won the World Fantasy Award. Today, it was announced that fantasy novelist Barry Hughart died on August 1. ![]()
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