Ealdwood

This article is about the original Ealdwood novella. For the 1991 Ealdwood omnibus and related books, see Ealdwood Stories.

Ealdwood

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	C. J. Cherryh
Illustrator	David A. Cherry
Cover artist	David A. Cherry
Language	English
Series	Ealdwood Stories
Genre	Fantasy
Published	1981 (Donald M. Grant)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	142
ISBN	0-575-04575-2
OCLC	8667096

"Ealdwood" is a fantasy novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh. One of Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories, it was first published in 1981 by Donald M. Grant in a limited edition of 1,050 copies. The edition was illustrated by the author's brother, David A. Cherry. The novella draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.

"Ealdwood" and the author's 1979 short story "The Dreamstone" (published in Amazons!, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson) were combined and revised by Cherryh and published as a novel, The Dreamstone in 1983. Cherryh published a sequel to The Dreamstone later in 1983, The Tree of Swords and Jewels.

Award nominations

• 1982 World Fantasy Award, Novella
• 1982 Locus Award, Novella

References

• "1982 Locus Awards". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
• "1982 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". World Fantasy Convention. Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Owings, Mark (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 327.
• Clute, John; Grant, John (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-88184-708-9.
• Frane, J. (July 1981). "Review of Ealdwood". Locus. 14 (6): 11.