Heir of Sea and Fire

New York, NY: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. 1st Edition; 1st state. Hardcover. 0689306067 . Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine of the book has a lightish, but noticeable slant to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has light creasing to the front and rear flaps, along with some spots of rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "Since 1994, McKillip's writing comprised purely standalone novels. Most of her novels feature cover paintings by Kinuko Y. Craft. On writing fantasy, she said, "The tropes of mythology and symbolism are the basics. It's like a notation in music; you can change it in really wacky ways, but the sound is always the same, the sound is always there. As long as we need these symbols, then the stories will be written. But if we destroy the old symbols, then we might just have to come up with new ones—who knows?"Critic Brian Stableford described McKillip as "one of the most accomplished prose stylists in the fantasy genre", while Nicholls and John Clute considered her "perhaps the most impressive author of fantasy story still active"." (from Wikipedia) .