The Dragon Waiting (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: John M. Ford
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alternate history
- Time of Work: The fifteenth century
- Setting: Wales; Burgundy, France; Florence and Milan, Italy; and England
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: France or French people, England or English people, Fifteenth century, Italy or Italians, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: France, England, Florence, Italy, Wales, Milan, Italy
The Plot
In this novel, four characters from different European countries and backgrounds live out their early lives and suffer from larger Byzantine plots and intrigues that sweep up their lives. Hywel Peredur, himself a wizard, is a descendant of a great Welsh wizard betrayed by the Byzantine Empire. Dimitrios Ducas, a mercenary, is the son of the governor of Burgundy in Gaul and the descendant of a deposed Byzantine emperor. Cynthia Ricci, a Florentine doctor in love with Lorenzo de’ Medici, is killed, along with members of her family, in a Byzantine plot to gain control...
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