The Phoenix and the Mirror

by Avram Davidson, Or All The Seas With Oysters Publishing LLC (Editor)

Inspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil - not quit the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured by the medieval hero, alchemist, and sorcerer extraordinaire.

Hugo Award winner Avram Davidson has mingled fact with fantasy, turned history askew, and come up with a powerful fantasy adventure that is an acknowledged classic of the field.

241 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2022

About the author

Avram Davidson was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".