
Fantasy, Young Adult
Adam K. Watts is an award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction, and has been a lover and avid reader of F&SF since he was knee-high to a short Hobbit.
He was also shaped at a young age by the poetry of Robert Frost and by Cervantes and Don Quixote. This has been reflected in many of his works; images that bespeak of places that call, of paths that make you want to walk them, and corners that beg you to come see what is just around them, or simply the wandering wind asking you to walk with her. “Tilting at windmills” is metaphorical for pushing back against the machinery of civilization advancing at the price of beauty and the human spirit. He believes that advancement can and should be achieved, but the cost should not be valor, honor, or justice. An impossible dream? Perhaps.

