John M. Ford (1957-2006) was a writer of science fiction and fantasy and, under a pseudonym, children's fiction. He was a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and two World Fantasy Awards, including one for THE DRAGON WAITING, a Gollancz Fantasy Masterwork.
I read it with delight, wonder and fascination * Marion Zimmer Bradley * A wonderful kaleidoscope of the imagination * Poul Anderson * The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen * Gene Wolfe * A thunderclap of a book, a thing of blood and magic * Roger Zelazny * 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 *