Timeline for fantasy book/trilogy where magic-using character has swarm of bees as a familiar
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| Dec 21, 2019 at 23:24 | comment | added | Obsidia | @Megha That was the first book to come to my mind, as well. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 4:16 | vote | accept | PeterL | ||
| Sep 24, 2016 at 12:35 | answer | added | David Cram | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 12:58 | comment | added | Megha | I thought about Robin McKinley's "Chalice" when I saw the question. but the timing is way off, aand I think the bees responded to what she needed, rather than her communicating with them. I hope you find it. | |
| May 28, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | user46277 | Did it have a cat character called Long Fur Mouse Bane or something like that? I thought it was a David Eddings book but am now doubtful. I read the books back in the 80's but cannot remember who the author was. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 12:23 | comment | added | Pat Dobson | This sounds like one of the books in Robin Hobb's 'The Tawny Man Trilogy'. The concept of 'Wit' magic (links with animals) is introduced in previous books. In one of the books, Fitz's childhood sweetheart 'pretends' to have a swarm of 'Wit' bees which She them 'directs' to attack an agressor. | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 7:47 | comment | added | Jeff-Inventor ChromeOS | Frank Herbert of the Dune series wrote a wonderful book early in his career, called The Green Brain, about bee-like insects developing sentience. | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 5:37 | comment | added | mkennedy | Argh! This sounds familiar. Maybe Tom DeHaven's King's Tramp? But it's been too long since I read them. | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 14:03 | comment | added | PeterL | Sorry SJuan, I've never read any Pratchett, so it isn't that. HugoRune, some of that seems familiar but none of it "clicks" as being part of the same story -- some kind of environmental trouble, and a primary female protagonist with a special gift of some kind, but I couldn't even guarantee I'm remembering this from the same book. Thanks though! | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 1:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/497915617585156096 | ||
| Aug 8, 2014 at 23:15 | comment | added | HugoRune | I vaguely remember reading a similar story, let me know if any of this is ringing any bells: - A river that switches its course annually; one year it flows through some arid regions, the other it flows through an underground kingdom. But the switch mechanism is broken and the people in the arid regions are suffering. - Some people occasionally hear a mysterious siren song that beckons them to go into a certain direction. The people that follow that call are never seen again. The female protagonist can hear this sound too. - in the finale the spirit of earth itself is in danger of "waking up". | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 21:55 | comment | added | SJuan76 | Terry Pratchett's Discworld series have a couple of books related to the saga of the witches. One of them is a Granny Weatherwax, which is able to put his mind in animals (including, at some novels, a swarm of bees). They are not familiars, though en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Weatherwax | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 20:54 | comment | added | PeterL | No; it was definitely a strict fantasy setting (that was more alternate-earth, or started there for the first book). The familiars were similar to daemons in some ways (i.e. they stayed with one person and were more intelligent than non-familiar animals), but only magic-users had them. Thanks for the thought though! | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Mr Lister | Are you thinking of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy? | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | Valorum | youtube.com/watch?v=YbfoAKet8Vc | |
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| Aug 8, 2014 at 17:50 | history | asked | PeterL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |