Wizard of the Pigeons: The 35th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

About the Author
Megan Lindholm lives on fourteen acres in the outskirts of McKenna, Washington, with a husband, two dogs, a cat, fifteen chickens, a gander, and three ducks. She is a grandmother to seven youngsters of various ages. She has been a published author since she was eighteen years old, and in 2020, that was fifty years ago. She has written for little local newspapers, children’s magazines, and educational publishers as well as commercially publishing both fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories.
While she shares a keyboard with Robin Hobb, they are definitely not the same writer!
Robin Hobb also writes as Megan Lindholm. Robin Hobb is the author of The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Trilogy, and the Tawny Man Trilogy.
Tommy Arnold is an award-winning illustrator of science fiction and fantasy, working for clients such as Tor Books, Orbit Books, Subterranean Press, Grim Oak Press, and Wizards of the Coast. His work has been featured on the cover of ImagineFX magazine and in the pages of illustration annuals Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, and Spectrum.
A gorgeously illustrated 35th anniversary edition of the urban fantasy classic, featuring a new foreword by Megan Lindholm and illustrations by Tommy Arnold.
Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through the cracks in the paving stones of the sprawling metropolis. But only the inhabitants who possess special gifts are open to the city's consciousness; finding portents in the graffiti, reading messages in the rubbish or listening to warnings in the skipping-rope chants of children.
Wizard is bound to Seattle and her magic. His gift is the Knowing -- a powerful enchantment allowing him to know the truth of things; to hear the life-stories of ancient mummies locked behind glass cabinets, to receive true fortunes from the carnival machines, to reveal to ordinary people the answers to their troubles and to safeguard the city's equilibrium. The magic has its price; Wizard must never have more than a dollar in his pocket, must remain celibate, and he must feed and protect the pigeons.
But a threat to Seattle has begun to emerge in the portents. A malevolent force born of Wizard's forgotten past has returned to prey upon his power and taunt him with images of his obscure history; and he is the only wizard in Seattle who can face the evil and save the city, his friends and himself.