The Blue Hawk (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Dickinson
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—theological romance
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Future, Kings, queens, or royalty, Birds, Priests, Quest, Throne restoration
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
The story opens in the Temple of Gdu during the annual Ceremony of Renewal. Tron, a young priest, witnesses the victory of the priests of Gdu over the old king. He experiences a vision, then removes a blue hawk, the totem bird of the great Hawk God, Gdu, from the temple. The bird was to have been sacrificed to renew the soul of the old king; instead, the priests kill the king. Tron becomes the keeper of the sacred blue hawk and as such cannot be harmed, but he discovers that the highly systematized priestly society now in charge of the kingdom will try to kill him...
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