Songs of Earth and Power (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Greg Bear
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—magical world
- Time of Work: 1985
- Setting: Los Angeles, California, and the Realm of the Sidhe
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Music or musicians, Art or artists, Other worlds, 1980’s, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Parallel universes or alternate dimensions, Fairies
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Fictional planets
The Plot
The Infinity Concerto, Greg Bear’s first novel, written at the age of nineteen, was not published until fourteen years later. He always knew the story was incomplete, and The Serpent Mage soon followed its publication. The stories trace the efforts of young poet Michael Perrin to reconcile an ancient conflict between Earth’s original Faery inhabitants and present-day humankind.
Seventeen-year-old Michael makes the acquaintance of the aged composer Arno Waltiri, whose 1939 composition, the Infinity Concerto, had catastrophic consequences when...
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