SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

I’m curious to know which mythical birds caught your interest in Fantasy (other than dragons)

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The Phoenix, from books read in childhood: Edward Ormondroyd’s David and the Phoenix (1957) and E. Nesbit’s The Phoenix and the Carpet (originally 1904).

Two that aren’t on the fantastical birds list:

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee, in which rocs play an important role. It’s also a very quick read.

Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy has some amazing fantastical ravens, though I think they may be more prominent in the second book - my memory for book plots is not the best after a year or two. The first book is Black Sun and the final book is due out in 2024.

Anna wrote: "Check out our fantastical birds theme:

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This is awesome, thank you!

There are some big war birds (kettral) used by the military in The Emperor's Blades. It's a series I recommend frequently.

If I remember correctly, there was a firebird in Patricia McKillip's book In the Forests of Sierre.

Firebird (The Elemental Masters Fairy Tales) by Mercedes Lackey, too.

Also, a jhereg, a kind of tiny lizardlike scavenger dragonish familiar from The Book of Jhereg.

Girrard DiMercy is an Anzû. You know the elemental stormbird from Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Mercy Blade

a Thunderbird appears to help out Mercy Thompson in River Marked

Michelle wrote: "Firebird (The Elemental Masters Fairy Tales) by Mercedes Lackey, too.

Also, a jhereg, a kind of tiny lizardlike scavenger dragonish familiar from The Book of Jhereg."

the jhereg and later on another one are in the entire Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust.

Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli series has hawks and other birds as "lir" partnered with the Cheysuli men. The men can shape change into the bird and converse mentally with them

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee is about rocs.

I also remembered the falcons from the WitchWorld book series by Andre Norton. They were always in very close contact with their masters, carrying their messages and guarding the borders of their land.
Their masters were so attached to their birds that their neighbours even nicknamed their nation "the falconers".