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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">McKillip, Patricia A </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=mckillip_patricia_a'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=mckillip_patricia_a'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=mckillip_patricia_a'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=mckillip_patricia_a&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=mckillip_patricia_a'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=mckillip_patricia_a');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=McKillip-Kingfisher.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/McKillip-Kingfisher.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1948-2022) US author whose early books were all fantasy, mostly for children. These showed an increasing assurance (and appeared to be for increasingly older children) from <i>The House on Parchment Street</i> (<b>1973</b>) through to <i>The Throme of the Erril of Sherill</i> (<b>1973</b> chap; exp as coll with "The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath" [in <i>Elsewhere 2</i>, anth <b>1982</b>, ed Terri <a href="/entry/windling_terri">Windling</a> and Mark Allan Arnold] <b>1984</b>) and <i>The Forgotten Beasts of Eld</i> (<b>1974</b>) – the last winning a <a href="/entry/world_fantasy_award">World Fantasy Award</a> for best novel – an assurance which culminated in the <b>Riddle-Master</b> trilogy: <i>The Riddle-Master of Hed</i> (<b>1976</b>), <i>Heir of Sea and Fire</i> (<b>1978</b>) and <i>Harpist in the Wind</i> (<b>1979</b>), assembled as <i>Riddle of Stars</i> (omni <b>1979</b>; vt <i>The Chronicles of Morgon, Prince of Hed</i> <b>1981</b>). It has been argued, by Peter <a href="/entry/nicholls_peter">Nicholls</a> in <i>Survey of Modern Fantastic Literature</i> (<b>1983</b>) edited by Frank N <a href="/entry/magill_frank_n">Magill</a>, that the trilogy is a work of classic stature: the intricate narrative of its quest story echoes a moral complexity almost unheard of in fantasy trilogies; McKillip's protagonist has a special skill at unravelling riddles and, through a series of strategies (including subliminal hints as little obvious as leaves in a forest) not unlike those adopted by Gene <a href="/entry/wolfe_gene">Wolfe</a> in his <i>The Book of the New Sun</i> (<b>1980-1983</b> 4vols), she forces the reader also to become a decipherer of codes. Thus the book's meaning is enacted by the way it must be read. While in no way resembling sf, the trilogy contains one of the most sophisticated uses of the <a href="/entry/shapeshifters">Shapeshifter</a> theme to be found anywhere in sf or fantasy.</p> <p>Her sf proper began with the poignant <b>Kyreol</b> sequence for the <a href="/entry/young_adult">Young Adult</a> market: <i>Moon-Flash</i> (<b>1984</b>) and <i>The Moon and the Face</i> (<b>1985</b>). Much as in her fantasy books, the central theme is <a href="/entry/conceptual_breakthrough">Conceptual Breakthrough</a>, in this case from an Edenic but primitive <a href="/entry/pocket_universe">Pocket Universe</a>, Riverworld, which turns out to be an isolated corner of a planet containing the way station of an interstellar civilization, and the protected object of anthropological study. <i>Fool's Run</i> (<b>1987</b>), which is adult sf, retells the Orpheus myth in a story of a woman visionary who has been found guilty of mass murder and is incarcerated in a <a href="/entry/prisons">Prison</a> satellite, the Underworld (see <a href="/entry/crime_and_punishment">Crime and Punishment</a>); it is memorable for its evocative sequences about future <a href="/entry/music">Music</a>.</p> <p>Though McKillip's sf is unusual and well written, she has clearly found the conventions of fantasy more adaptable to her needs, which centre on intricate, deeply worked storylines whose exact wording and emphases demand, and reward, focused attention; demands perhaps less taxing than Gene <a href="/entry/wolfe_gene">Wolfe</a> (see above) makes on his readers, but similarly mandatory. She returned to fantasy with the <b>Cygnet</b> sequence comprising <i>The Sorceress and the Cygnet</i> (<b>1991</b>) and <i>The Cygnet and the Firebird</i> (<b>1994</b>), set in a land where <a href="/entry/stars">Star</a> constellations manifest themselves as gods or people and transform (or redeem) the mutable human world into ageless story. As with almost all her work, her protagonists – in this case a firebird <a href="/entry/shapeshifters">Shapeshifted</a> from a warrior who on regaining human form loses his memory – are very conspicuously obedient to the stories that tell them. In this sense, much of her later work can justly be thought of as a set of elaborate fantasias on folklore (though often with no particular model identifiable). </p> <p>Since 1987, McKillip wrote only fantasy, always individual tales: there are no series in her oeuvre after 1994. Obedience to inner truth, or to the underlying story which shapes the Land (much the same thing), lies at the heart of much of her later work. The Prince who is the protagonist of <i>The Book of Atrix Wolfe</i> (<b>1995</b>) must learn the rules of the world, through deep study of a book of <a href="/entry/magic">Magic</a>, in order to find a deeply hidden Princess. <i>Song for the Basilisk</i> (<b>1998</b>) similarly requires that its protagonist research his world before regaining his rightful place. In the powerfully moving <i>In the Forests of Serre</i> (<b>2003</b>) a Prince, suicidally depressed after the death of his wife and child, must learn to obey the redemptive magic inherent in the world he must rule in justice. The eponymous word-tangle in <i>Alphabet of Thorn</i> (<b>2004</b>) must be deciphered in order for the new Queen to recognize the nature, and the future, of her land. In <i>The Bell at Sealey Head</i> (<b>2008</b>), which is set in a venue as intimately <a href="/entry/magic_realism">Magic Realist</a> as a James P <a href="/entry/blaylock_james_p">Blaylock</a> vision of California, two worlds are joined by a portal whose working – indeed the health of both worlds so wed – is governed by the ringing of the titular bell, a sound so deeply embedded in the cast's perceptions that it is often not heard at all. And the search for the source of poetry in <i>The Bards of Bone Plain</i> (<b>2010</b>) similarly intertwines the laws of inner magic and the clutter of the external world. Over the final decades of her life, eschewing the use of fantasy backgrounds for inherently mundane epics, McKillip became perhaps the most impressive author of fantasy story still active. In 2008 she received the <a href="/entry/world_fantasy_award">World Fantasy Award</a> for lifetime achievement. [PN/JC]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/arts">Arts</a>; <a href="/entry/childrens_sf">Children's SF</a>; <a href="/entry/mythology">Mythology</a>; <a href="/entry/space_stations">Space Stations</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">Patricia Anne McKillip</h3> <p><b>born</b> Salem, Oregon: 29 February 1948</p> <p><b>died</b> 6 May 2022</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=mckillip_patricia_a&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=mckillip_patricia_a'"></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Riddle Master</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Riddle-Master+of+Hed&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Riddle-Master of Hed</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1976</b>) [<b>Riddle Master</b>: hb/Michael Mariano]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Heir+of+Sea+and+Fire&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Heir of Sea and Fire</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1978</b>) [<b>Riddle Master</b>: hb/Michael Mariano]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Harpist+in+the+Wind&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Harpist in the Wind</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1979</b>) [<b>Riddle Master</b>: hb/Michael Mariano] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Riddle+of+Stars&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Riddle of Stars</a></em> (Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, <b>1979</b>) [omni of the above three: hb/Jack Woolhiser] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Chronicles+of+Morgon+Prince+of+Hed&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Chronicles of Morgon, Prince of Hed</a></em> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, <b>1981</b>) [omni: vt of the above: <b>Riddle Master</b>: hb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Riddle-Master&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Riddle-Master</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1999</b>) [omni: vt of the above: <b>Riddle Master</b>: pb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Riddle-Master+Game&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Riddle-Master's Game</a></em> (London: Gollancz, <b>2001</b>) [omni: vt of the above: <b>Riddle Master</b>: pb/Michael Mariano]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><b>Kyreol</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Moon-Flash&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Moon-Flash</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1984</b>) [<b>Kyreol</b>: hb/Theresa Fasolino]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Moon+and+the+Face&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Moon and the Face</a></em> (New York: Atheneum/Argo, <b>1984</b>) [<b>Kyreol</b>: hb/Stephen Marchesi] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Moon-Flash&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Moon-Flash</a></em> (New York: Penguin Books/Firebird, <b>2005</b>) [omni of the above two: <b>Kyreol</b>: pb/Steve <a href="/entry/stone_steve">Stone</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><b>Cygnet</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Sorceress+and+the+Cygnet&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Sorceress and the Cygnet</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1991</b>) [<b>Cygnet</b>: hb/Romas <a href="/entry/kukalis_romas_b">Kukalis</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Cygnet+and+the+Firebird&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Cygnet and the Firebird</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1994</b>) [<b>Cygnet</b>: hb/John <a href="/entry/howe_john">Howe</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Cygnet&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Cygnet</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2007</b>) [omni of the above two: <b>Cygnet</b>: pb/John <a href="/entry/howe_john">Howe</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+House+on+Parchment+Street&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The House on Parchment Street</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1973</b>) [hb/Charles Robinson]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Forgotten+Beasts+of+Eld&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Forgotten Beasts of Eld</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1974</b>) [hb/Peter Schaumann]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Night+Gift&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Night Gift</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1976</b>) [hb/Kathy McKillip]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Stepping+from+the+Shadows&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Stepping from the Shadows</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1982</b>) [hb/Muriel Nasser]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Fool+Run&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Fool's Run</a></em> (New York: Warner Books, <b>1987</b>) [hb/Michael <a href="/entry/whelan_michael">Whelan</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Changeling+Sea&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Changeling Sea</a></em> (New York: Macmillan/Atheneum, <b>1988</b>) [hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Brian+Froud+Faerielands+Something+Rich+and&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Brian Froud's Faerielands: Something Rich and Strange</a></em> (New York: Bantam Spectra, <b>1994</b>) [<b>Brian Froud's Faerielands</b>: illus/hb/Brian Froud]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Book+of+Atrix+Wolfe&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Book of Atrix Wolfe</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1995</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Winter+Rose&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Winter Rose</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1996</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Song+for+the+Basilisk&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Song for the Basilisk</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1998</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Tower+at+Stony+Wood&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Tower at Stony Wood</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2000</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ombria+in+Shadow&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ombria in Shadow</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2002</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+the+Forests+of+Serre&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In the Forests of Serre</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2003</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Alphabet+of+Thorn&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Alphabet of Thorn</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2004</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Od+Magic&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Od Magic</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2005</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Solstice+Wood&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Solstice Wood</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2006</b>) [hb/Gary Blythe]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Bell+at+Sealey+Head&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Bell at Sealey Head</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2008</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Bards+of+Bone+Plain&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Bards of Bone Plain</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2010</b>) [hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Kingfisher&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Kingfisher</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2016</b>) [hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Throme+of+the+Erril+of+Sherill&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Throme of the Erril of Sherill</a></em> (New York: Atheneum, <b>1973</b>) [chap: illus/hb/Julie Noonan] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Throme+of+the+Erril+of+Sherill&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Throme of the Erril of Sherill</a></em> (New York: Ace Tempo, <b>1984</b>) [exp of the above as coll with "The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath" from <em>Elsewhere 2</em> (anth <b>1982</b>) edited by Terri <a href="/entry/windling_terri">Windling</a> and Mark Allan Arnold: illus/hb/Judith Wright]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Harrowing+the+Dragon+Collected+Tales&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Harrowing the Dragon: Collected Tales</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>2005</b>) [coll: hb/Kinuko Y <a href="/entry/craft_kinuko_y">Craft</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Wonders+of+the+Invisible+World&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Wonders of the Invisible World</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2012</b>) [coll: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dreams+of+Distant+Shores&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dreams of Distant Shores</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2016</b>) [coll: pb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Karkadann+Triangle&field-author=Mckillip+Patricia+A" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Karkadann Triangle</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2018</b>) with Peter S <a href="/entry/beagle_peter_s">Beagle</a> [coll: chap: one story by each author: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.patriciamckillip.com/">Patricia McKillip (fan site)</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1022">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=mckillip_patricia_a">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> <p><b>previous versions of this entry</b></p> <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mckillip_patricia_a' target='_blank'>Internet 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