{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford [PDF] The Dragon Waiting Book by John M. Ford Free Download (368 pages) Free download or read online The Dragon Waiting pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 1983, and was written by John M. Ford. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 368 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fantasy, science fiction story are Richard III of England, . The book has been awarded with World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1984), and many others. The Dragon Waiting PDF Details. Author: John M. Ford Original Title: The Dragon Waiting Book Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 368 pages First Published in: 1983 Latest Edition: May 9th 2002 Language: English Awards: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1984) Main Characters: Richard III of England category: fantasy, science fiction, alternate history, historical, historical fiction, fiction, historical, paranormal, vampires, historical fiction, historical fantasy Formats: ePUB(Android), audible mp3, audiobook and kindle. The translated version of this book is available in Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian / Malaysian, French, Japanese, German and many others for free download. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in The Dragon Waiting may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford. I hate this book. How I hate this book. Vampires How much vampire content is permissible before I throw a book in the trash unread? Because listen, when I read a fantasy book called The Dragon Waiting I'm expecting a story about a dragon. I am willing to read about a dragon. Multiple dragons, even. What I'm not expecting is an alternate history where the Byzantine Empire rules the world and also vampires are real. No dragons On the internet there is some disagreement about whether there is a real dragon in this book. Let me clear things up: there is a figurative dragon in this book, and there is a literal dragon in this book, but there is no real dragon in this book. The figurative dragon is Henry Tudor whose banner is the red dragon. But the red dragon is also a literal dragon. Not a literal real dragon, but a literal magical dragon powered by the collective imagination and belief of Henry Tudor’s army. The dragon is the real-world manifestation of the people’s belief in him, shaped and controlled by a wizard. I am not satisfied. Requires too much history knowledge I'm an American, so forgive me if I'm not familiar with the details of the War of Roses. The Dragon Waiting is set in a world where the Byzantine Empire never fell, and Europe is split between Byzantium and Britain. But, somehow, the War of Roses happens almost exactly like it does in our world. It's lots of fun, I guess, for someone who knows all the details. But I do not enjoy having to keep a browser tab open to Wikipedia just to understand the plot. Confusing names Everybody is named Richard, Edward, Henry, or George, plus everybody also has their titles, and come on, I can't be expected to know that the guy called George in this paragraph is the same one called Clarence later because he's the Duke of Clarence. Stupid writing tricks: withholding information John M. Ford does that thing that writers do when they are too clever for their own good: he omits the important information and makes us guess what it is from all his clues. For example, there's one scene where a character is transforming into. something. Then there's a whirlwind. And then another character suddenly appears, and even though everybody had been searching for him in the entire previous chapter, nobody is surprised and his reappearance is never commented on. And then somebody dies, but we aren't told who or why. And this is supposed to be a good book? Draco Concordans: all your questions answered Fortunately for you and me, someone has taken the time to analyze The Dragon Waiting and explain everything. That someone is Andrew Plotkin, and he created the Draco Concordans. The intricate world John M. Ford has created is really quite extraordinary. It's a magnificent piece of work. I just didn't happen to enjoy it; I don't like to spend quite so much time and effort deciphering the story as this book requires. The Dragon Waiting by John M Ford. Simon & Schuster, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History. Ford, John M. Published by Avon Books (1985) Used - Softcover Condition: Fair. Quantity available: 1. Avon Books, 1985. Paperback. Condition: Fair. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Dragon Waiting. Ford, John M. Published by Tor Books (2020) Used - Softcover Condition: VeryGood. Quantity available: 1. Fast shipping and order satisfaction guaranteed. A portion of your purchase benefits charities, First Aid and Fire Stations!. Tor Books, 2020. Condition: VeryGood. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Dragon Waiting (Paperback) John M. Ford. Published by Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom (2020) New - Softcover Condition: New. Quantity available: 10. Language: English. Brand new Book. From a snowbound inn, high in the Alps, four unlikely allies will turn against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and make him Richard III.A noble Byzantine mercenary.A female Florentine physician.An ageless Welsh wizard.And Sforza, an uncanny duke.Together, they will alter the fate of millions . . .Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of blood and magic. * * * * * * * * *'Had [John M. Ford] taken The Dragon Waiting and written a sequence of five books based in that world, with that power, he would've been George R.R. Martin' Neil Gaiman'The best mingling of histroy with historical magic that I have ever seen' Gene Wolfe. Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2020. Paperback. Condition: New. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History (Fantasy Masterworks S.) Ford, John M. Published by Gollancz (2008) Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom Contact seller. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. A slight tan to page edges Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Gollancz, 2008. Paperback. Condition: Good. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Dragon Waiting. Ford, John M. Published by Corgi (1985) Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom Contact seller. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Darkened tan to the page edges. Previously water damaged, slight waving to the page edges. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Corgi, 1985. Paperback. Condition: Good. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Dragon Waiting (Tor Essentials) Ford, John M. Published by Tor Books (2020) New - Hardcover Condition: New. Quantity available: > 20. Hardcover. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Tor Books, 2020. Hardcover. Condition: New. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Dragon Waiting, The (Compact Disc) Ford, John M. Published by 2/9/2021 (2021) New Condition: New. Quantity available: > 20. Dragon Waiting, The (Compact Disc). 2/9/2021, 2021. Condition: New. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History. Ford, John M. Published by Avon Books (1985) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Signed Copy First edition copy. . From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. In protective plastic bag. Mass Market Paperback edition. 1st Avon edition. Signed by author John M. Ford on title page. Owner's name on inside. (Vintage paperbacks, Science fiction, fantasy). Avon Books, 1985. Condition: Very Good. The Dragon Waiting. Ford, John M. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The Dragon Waiting. Ford, John M. Published by Corgi Books, London (1985) Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. 347, [5] pages. First publication in Great Britain, stated on front cover and colophon. Covers and spine scuffed; leaves toned. No spine creasing; no inscriptions. Size: 8vo. Corgi Books, London, 1985. Card covers. Condition: Good. First UK Edition. The Dragon Waiting. John M. Ford. Published by Timescape Books (1983) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. "The Dragon Waiting" by John M. Ford 1986 First Edition, First Printing Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" 365 Pages The jacket is in good minus condition with a small edge chip and rubbing on the back. The jacket is now protected with a Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition, free from rips, tears, bends, stains, and writing. There is a light remainder mark on the bottom page edges. The boards are in good condition with minimal wear. The binding is tight and square. Timescape Books, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Dragon Waiting. Ford, John M. Published by Timescape Books/Simon & Schuster, New York (1983) Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. The incredible classic now finally available again from Tor Books. Full number line down to and including 1. In black boards with red spine cloth and silver type. In beautiful shape with the exception of small ding to bottom rear corner. Publisher's remainder stamp to bottom page ends. Jacket is unclipped ($15.95) with a little wear/rubbing to corners and spine ends. Small chip to top rear corner and a couple nicks/very short tears to top of spine - Very Good +. Not a book club edition as are many in circulation. 1st Printing. Timescape Books/Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cuando El Dragon Despierte/the Dragon Waiting (Spanish Edition) Ford, John M. Published by Martinez Roca S A Ediciones (1986) Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. 8427010672. Martinez Roca S A Ediciones, 1986. PAPERBACK. Condition: Good. The Dragon Waiting A Masque of History. Ford, John M. Published by Timescape Books / Simon & Schuster, New York (1983) Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some very beginning bumping to the top spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The top edge of the text block has some very beginning foxing. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but has some very light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends. "John Milo "Mike" Ford (April 10, 1957 September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. A contributor to several online discussions, Ford composed poems, often improvised, in both complicated forms and blank verse; he also wrote pastiches and parodies of many other authors and styles. At Minicon and other science fiction conventions he would perform "Ask Dr. Mike", giving humorous answers to scientific and other questions in a lab coat before a whiteboard." (from Wikipedia). Timescape Books / Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. THE DRAGON WAITING (ADVANCE PROOF) John M. Ford. Published by Timescape Books (1983) Used - Hardcover Condition: As New. Quantity available: 1. Great advance uncorrected proof of the first edition book in AS NEW FINE excellent condition. Complete number row. Shelf 330, smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS. Timescape Books, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Dragon Waiting. “The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen.”—Gene Wolfe In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate. A noble Byzantine mercenary . . . A female Florentine physician . . . An ageless Welsh wizard . . . And Sforza, the uncanny duke. Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester— and make him Richard III. Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of blood and magic. “Had [John M. Ford] taken The Dragon Waiting and written a sequence of five books based in that world, with that power, he would’ve been George R.R. Martin.” —Neil Gaiman. CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR. Related Links. SIGN UP FOR AUTHOR UPDATES. MACMILLAN NEWSLETTER. Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers. Book Excerpt Reviews About the Author Community From the Publisher. EXCERPT. We open with a trick: John M. (Mike) Ford is laying out Byzantiums on a table, presenting them with conjurer’s flourishes, wiggling his eyebrows. “Here you are, gentlefolk, now. Reviews. Reviews from Goodreads. About the author. John M. Ford. John M. Ford (1957-2006) was a science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet whose work was held in high regard by peers ranging from Neil Gaiman to Robert Jordan to Jo Walton to Roger Zelazny, alongside innumerable others. His novels include the World Fantasy Award-winning The Dragon Waiting , the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Growing up Weightless , and the contemporary thriller The Scholars of Night . His debut novel Web of Angels (1980) has been called “cyberpunk before there was cyberpunk.” He spent the latter decade-and-a-half of his writing life in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tor.com. Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects. Subtly twisted history: John M. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting. It’s so easy to talk about how clever The Dragon Waiting is that it’s easy to lose sight of what good fun it is, so I wanted to start with this. It’s a brilliantly written, absorbing book with great characters; it’s hard to put down once it gets going; and it’s laugh aloud funny in places. This is John M. Ford’s World Fantasy Award-winning masterpiece, and it really is notably brilliant. It’s a historical fantasy that plays games with history. I suppose lots of historical fantasies and alternate histories play games with history, but most of them are playing tic-tac-toe while The Dragon Waiting is playing three-dimensional Go. It’s a Richard III book, though it takes a while to figure that out. Indeed, it takes a while to figure it out at all, because the first part that introduces the three main characters seems like the beginning of three different books, set in three different worlds. The wizard Hywel Peredur lives in a post- Roman Wales, the boy Dimitrios Ducas lives in a Gaul reconquered by Byzantium, and the doctor Cynthia Ricci lives at the Renaissance court of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Yet this is all one world and the three of them meet up with Gregory von Bayern, a vampire gun-maker, at an inn in an Alpine mountain pass, and go on together to work against Byzantium’s designs for reconquering Britain, and suddenly we are into the reality of the Wars of the Roses, the plotting nobles, the princes in the tower, vampires, wizards, Henry Tudor with Byzantine backing, exploding guns, dragons, witches, ciphers, poisons, and intrigue. The world is an alternate history where Julian the Apostate lived to ensure no one faith had priority over any other, and everyone is largely pagan. I don’t think anyone else has written a feudal world without Christianity that I’m convinced by, nevermind medieval Europe, so this in itself is a major achievement. Justinian and Theodora became vampires, and held onto and consolidated Belisarius’ reconquest of half of Italy, going on to divide up France between themselves and the English crown. Now they’re mopping up the rest of Italy. Real-world Byzantium fell in 1453. It’s hard to feel all that sorry the alternate world counterpart is trying to swallow up all of Europe fifty years after that, which makes them an interesting choice of bad guys. We never see them all that clearly, what we mostly see are the individuals manipulated by them, not Byzantium itself. Still, it makes a convincing menace. I normally hate alternate histories where the turning point was hundreds of years before and yet there are characters with the same names and characters, but it doesn’t bother me at all here. I think I don’t mind it because Ford does it so perfectly, and not only that but he knows the history and geography so well that he never puts a foot wrong. There are very few books written by Americans and set in Britain (and only this one in Wales) where the geography works and the scale of the landscape feels right. (Similarly, I’d never dare set anything in the US.) Ford knows the real history well enough that it sits up and does tricks for him. Similarly, if there’s one thing that puts me off a book it’s vampires. Yet The Dragon Waiting has a major vampire character and a plot and backstory that rely on vampires. It helps that they’re not sexy, or attractive, it helps that they’re much more like heroin addicts and that Gregory is using animal blood as methadone. Most of all, it helps that it doesn’t have vampires because vampires are cool, but because vampires are necessary. At least it doesn’t have any pirates. (But perhaps Ford could have made me like pirates, too. He made me almost like a Star Trek novel, after all.) The characters are wonderful, all the way through. The book gives you time to get to know them and then uses them in precise ways, so you feel they’re doing exactly what they would do. This is true even of minor characters. It also uses Arthurian motifs to underscore the story, without ever getting tangled up in them. Part of the satisfaction of re-reading a complex book like this is seeing the mechanism, knowing what’s going to happen and seeing the inevitability of each action. It’s surprisingly hard to do that with this—it’s hard to hold onto. It’s as if in twisting the tail of history Ford could somehow manage to twist his own tale and make it come out differently. What a good book this is, what an enjoyable read, and how incredibly clever . I love it. It’s not likely to have a US reprint soon, so I’d grab this attractive Gollancz “Ultimate Fantasies” edition while it’s available. Jo Walton is a science fiction and fantasy writer. She’s published eight novels, most recently Half a Crown and Lifelode , and two poetry collections. She reads a lot, and blogs about it here regularly. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are more varied.