The publication of The Folk of the Air is an Event, no doubt about it… it is easily the best new fantasy novel I read last year… The main character is Joe Farrell, who first appeared as the hero of a short story called “Lila the Werewolf” (which may be found in the omnibus volume The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Two decades later Farrell returned in Beagle’s third novel The Folk of the Air, which won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and was called “Peter Beagle’s Silmarillion” in the Mythopoeic Society review.
In 1969 Beagle wrote one of his most popular short stories, “Lila the Werewolf” (first published in Guabi #1, and in Terry Carr’s New Worlds of Fantasy #3), featuring the character Sam Farrell. He followed it with The Last Unicorn (1968), which placed fifth in the 1987 Locus Poll for All-Time Best Fantasy Novel, sold more than five million copies, and was made into a popular animated film by Rankin/Bass in 1982. Written while he was still a teenager, the novel established Beagle immediately as a major American fantasist. Beagle burst on the scene in 1960 with A Fine and Private Place, the tale of a man quietly living in a cemetery for decades. Review by Maureen Porter (1987) in Vector 141.Review by Tom Easton (1987) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1987.Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1987) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, September-October 1987.Review by Baird Searles (1987) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1987.Review by Charles de Lint (1987) in Fantasy Review, April 1987.Review by Faren Miller (1986) in Locus, #310 November 1986.Reception ĭave Langford reviewed The Folk of the Air for White Dwarf #96, and stated that "Perhaps I'm disappointed that a writer as gifted as Beagle should only touch the surface of his medievalists, indulging a few ironies but avoiding the depths of motivation which he's well fitted to plumb." Reviews The Folk of the Air is a novel in which 1980s Californian medievalists go into the past. The Folk of the Air is a novel by Peter S.
For fantasy book series by Holly Black, see The Folk of the Air (series).
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