john m ford

Sword and sorcery. Heavier on the sword. Adult fantasy Novel.Hero has been an endentured servant for and indef period of time. He offended church Doctrine when he was a kind of Knight Scholar and his sentence is indefinite (in effect, life). He and a buddy are working in a quarry (? ) and go to...

I read this short story maybe 20 years ago or more. It was in an anthology. It's nominally about a dragon's friend and the dragon and the end of magic in the world... all as a musing about Schrodinger's Cat. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Thought it might be worthwhile to get a discussion going on this somewhat under-read but brilliant author. Ford, who passed away in 2006, is probably best known for his fantasy cum alternate history extravaganza The Dragon Waiting, which was recently published under the Fantasy Masterworks...