"The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen."—Gene WolfeIn a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate.A noble Byzantine mercenary . . .A female Florentine physician . . .An ageless Welsh wizard . . .And Sforza, the uncanny duke.Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester—and ...

From the brilliant author of The Dragon Waiting and Growing Up Weightless, a novel that saw the cyberpunk future with stunning clarity, years before anyone else.Originally published in 1980, the legendary John M. Ford’s first published novel was an uncannily brilliant anticipation of the later cyberpunk genre—and of the internet itself.The Web links the many worlds of humanity. Most people can only use it to communicate. Some can retrieve ...

Enter the captivating world of John M. Ford's final masterpiece, where politics, magic, and adventure intertwine in an epic tale unlike any other.Join Varic, Coron of the Corvaric Coast, as he navigates the halls of Parliament. Uncover mysteries with the Archmage Birch in Strange House. Traverse the mountains alongside the Palion Silvern, Sorcerer, in the company of Lady Longlight.In Aspects, John M. Ford, hailed as "the best writer in America, bar...

John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a "consulting agency" with shadowy government connections. There, he is a genius at teasing secrets out of documents...

Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a "lost generation" of young people born on the human-colonized Moon.Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna—and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna's increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where there ...