''The Folk of the Air'' is a novel by Peter S. Beagle published in 1986.

Plot summary

''The Folk of the Air'' is a novel in which 1980s Californian medievalists go into the past.

Reception

Dave Langford David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter ''Ansible'', and holds the all-time record for mos ...

reviewed ''The Folk of the Air'' for ''

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'' #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

*Review by Faren Miller (1986) in

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, #310 November 1986 *Review by Charles de Lint (1987) in

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, April 1987 *Review by Baird Searles (1987) in

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, June 1987 *Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1987) in

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, September-October 1987 *Review by Tom Easton (1987) in

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, October 1987 *Review by Maureen Porter (1987) in

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141 *Review by David L. Transue (1987) in

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, #28, Fall 1987 *Review by M. John Harrison (1987) in

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, #38 Winter 1986/87 *Review by Orson Scott Card (1988) in

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher a ...

, January 1988 *Review by Phyllis McDonald (1988) in Interzone, #23 Spring 1988

References

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