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Excerpt from Faerielands:
"I [Brian Froud]
created the Faerielands art in the summer and autumn of 1991.
Later that autumn I met with four authors who were to write the books,
Charles De Lint, Patricia McKillip, Midori Snyder, and Terri Windling,
along with the series co-creator Robert Gould and the producer Byron
Preiss, and spread out the drawings and paintings I'd completed--over
fifty of them in all. The writers divided the images among them,
choosing the ones they were most drawn to, and then they each went away
to write the story the pictures whispered to them."
"They had the freedom
to write whatever they chose, just as I'd had the freedom to paint what
I chose; yet we'd agreed on a central premise: a recognition that Faerie,
inextricably bound as it is to nature and natural forces, is gravely
threatened by the ecological crises that human beings have brought to
our world."--Brian
Froud
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The novels by Patricia
McKillip, SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE, and Charles De Lint, THE WILD
WOOD, in this series were published, unfortunately the rest of the
series were cancelled (due to changes in Bantam's SF/Fantasy program
at that time), along with plans for paperback editions of all the
books. Because of this, the next book in the "Faerielands" series,
Terri Windling's THE WOOD WIFE (about faeries in the Arizona desert)
came out from a different publisher (Tor Books), and then went on
to win the Mythopoeic Award for Best Fantasy Novel of 1996. Froud
contributed a new piece of artwork for the cover of the British edition
of the novel (published by Random House/Legends), which you can view
at Windling's
Endicott Studio along with several of the original WOOD WIFE
drawings and other works by Froud.
The novel, THE WOOD
WIFE, is dedicated to Brian Froud and contains many references
to his art, but does not contain any of the original Froud interior
drawings because they were legally tied up with the previous "packager"
of the series (Byron Preiss Visual Productions) at the time. The fourth
Faerielands novel is Midori Snyder's HANNAH'S GARDEN, about
faeries in Wisconsin farm country. This book is now available from
Viking Publishing.
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© Brian
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© Brian
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Brian Froud's FAERIELANDS
Series written (Introduction) and illustrated by Brian Froud. Authors
are Charles De Lint, Patricia McKillip, Terri Windling and Midori Snyder.
Published in 1994 by Bantam
Books.
The Cover Art for each book was:
© Brian Froud
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Something Rich and Strange by Patricia McKillip
Something Rich and Strange was the second book in this series. The tale is now available and has been re-released with the original Brian Froud artwork and with new cover art.
Original Edition Information:
Release date: October 1, 1994
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553096745 |
(new version with artwork)
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Original Cover art |
Re-print edition
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The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint; Re-print Edition without Brian Froud artwork
The Wild Wood was the first book released in this series. Now the tale is again available in a re-print edition but unfortunately does not contain any of the original Brian Froud artwork.
Original Edition Information:
Release date: March 1, 1994
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553096303 |
(new version w/out artwork)
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UK Edition
Cover by Brian Froud
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US Edition
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The
Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Originally part of
the Brian Froud Faerielands series, it was not released due to
changes in Bantam's SF/Fantasy program. Because of this, THE WOOD WIFE
(about faeries in the Arizona desert) came out from a different publisher
(without the original Froud artwork), and then went on to win the Mythopoeic
Award for Best Fantasy Novel of 1996. Brian Froud contributed a new
piece of artwork for the cover of the UK edition..
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Hannah's
Garden by Midori Snyder
Originally part of
the Brian Froud Faerielands series, it was not released due to
changes in Bantam's SF/Fantasy program. Due to this issue, this book
has now been released from a different publisher (without the original
Froud artwork).
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