Book description
Trading with the elves used to be so simple. Every year Master Cheeser
Jonathan Bing would send his very best cheeses downriver to traders who
would eventually return with Elfin wonders for the people of Twombly
Town. But no more First the trading post at Willowood Station was
mysteriously destroyed. Then a magical elfin airship began making forays
overhead; Jonathan knew something was definitely amiss. So he set off
downriver to deliver the cheeses himself, accompanied by the amazing
Professor Wurzle, the irrepressible Dooly, and his faithful dog Ahab. It
would have been a pleasant trip, if not for the weeping skeleton, mad
goblins, magic coins, an evil dwarf, a cloak of invisibility - and a
watch that stopped time. However, the return trip would not be so simple
James P. Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California, in 1950, and
attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was
befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries
K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded - along with Powers and
Jeter - as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner
of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is currently
director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County High
School of the Arts, where Tim Powers is Writer in Residence.
