Wizard Of The Pigeons [Import] [Paperback]

Megan Lindholm (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Corgi (1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552130141
• ISBN-13: 978-0552130141
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,368,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Megan Lindholm lives and writes in Tacoma, Washington. Her website is at www.meganlindholm.com She also writes as Robin Hobb, but the two voices are distinctively different from one another.

Her novel Wizard of the Pigeons was a Nebula finalist, as were her short stories "A Touch of Lavender" and "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man." "A Touch of Lavender" was also a Hugo finalist. In addition, her short work has received the Asimov's Reader Award.

Although most of her book length work is produced as Robin Hobb these days, she continues to write short stories as Megan Lindholm.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Magic Among the Homeless, May 18, 2004

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizard of the Pigeons (Mass Market Paperback)

This week I want to talk about a book that is often hard to find, but one of the finest urban fantasies written. I refer to Megan Lindholm's WIZARD OF THE PIGEON. At a convention panel on magic, it was suggested that there were no mixes of magic and socialism in fantasy literature. I brought up this book as possibly the only socialistic treatment of a magic system (at least outside of a socialist country).

The book centers around the title character who is a street person. Apparently everyone with magic ability is a street person. Everyone's magic is different and none is better of worse than another. There is no one in charge. You just go to the person who can do what you need. The story sets up the characters and the world setting very nicely and quickly. Then our protagonist becomes hunted by a horrible monster.

I will leave it to the reader to determine if the story has a happy or sad ending. I personally found the ending to be rather sad. Whatever you decide, it is a very enjoyable and though provoking urban fantasy in a slender volume and I recommend it to anyone who can handle the concept of magic in a modern setting.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why is this out of print?, July 10, 2005

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ash (Phoenix) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wizard of the Pigeons (Mass Market Paperback)

I was in college when my boyfriend, another sci fi fiend from Seattle, turned me on to this book. I have read it several times since and have always come away with something more. Well written, good story, interesting twist at the end. Some say it was too slow - I felt the pacing just fine. Read this book, and pass it on to others. Maybe someone will get the hint and print up more copies!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A deep fantasy ABOUT fantasy, March 10, 2007

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Robert Groover - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizard of the Pigeons (Mass Market Paperback)

This seems, at first, to be a good work of magical realism - Charles de Lint with a twist - but it turns out to be much more. We first see a fantasy world, where magic is real, but then we also see a more realistic worldview, where the main character is psychotic. Both of these views are allowed their integrity, and neither is shattered. This is a very difficult balance, and the tension between these two views casts some light on what fantasy is, and why each of us reads it.