...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.