The Book of Knights

Yves Meynard

Original title: Le Livre des chevaliers.

From the culture that created the literary fairy tale and the courtly romance, a new voice – powerful and distinct. Written with color and imagery, the The Book of Knights is essentially a transformed fairy tale in which a young boy discovers a wider world outside his village through a marvelous book containing pictures and stories of knights.

"An unpredictable, brilliantly imaginative, and very engaging fantasy." – Ursula K. Le Guin

Published
1998
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Yves Meynard

Born in 1964 in Québec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Longueuil, on the south shore of Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal. Since 1986, he has published over 40 science fiction and fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 13 books in French. His first book in English, a Fantasy novel titled The Book of Knights, came out in January 1998 from Tor Books. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois in 1994. Yves is a collaborator of the Québécois SF magazine Solaris; he has been an anthologist for several…