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Song for the Basilisk by McKillip, Patricia A. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Song for the Basilisk about?

From Publishers Weekly In most of McKillip's novels (Winter Rose, etc.) and short stories, this veteran author, a World Fantasy Award winner (for Forgotten Beasts of Eld, 1975), uses words in precisely the same way her mages do, to shape images and create fantastic visions where none previously existed. Sometimes the images are grotesque and violent, but more frequently they are ethereal and exquisite. McKillip's new novel is no exception. In it, a royal child escapes fire and certain execution by hiding in the ashes of the castle fireplace. Flame and death fill his mind and shape his thoughts so he is invisible to his enemies. After he is discovered, his rescuers rename him "Caladrius. After the bird whose song means death," and send him to the bards living on Luly, the music school on a rock at the end of the world. There he is called Rook. He masters the picochet, a peasant instrument, loves Sirina and begets Hollis, a son. Thirty-seven years pass and his family's enemy, Arioso Pellior, patriarch of the house of Basilisk, again reaches out his hand to crush any remaining members of the house of Tourmalyne. Rook remembers that his name is Griffin Tourmalyne and he journeys home.

Who reads Song for the Basilisk?

Author

McKillip, Patricia A.

Publisher

Ace books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780441006786

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Young Adult, Romance

Rating

3.97 / 5 (2,034 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14