Besides, I wanted to write something at least about that summer, when my friend Phil Sigunick and I were both 23 years old, and knew without verbalizing it that we were never going to die. I actually don’t have a copy of the Subterranean edition of The Lost Journey, nor of the introduction I wrote for it, which I don’t remember at all. Why did you decide this edition needed those changes?

But for this one, you swapped out your intro for one by Carrie Vaughn, and added a forward from Pat Rothfuss, an afterward by you, and new illustrations by Stephanie Law. Subterranean Press previously issued a limited-edition version of The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey in 2006. I never finished that version, but I thought that it might be interesting for fans of The Last Unicorn, as well as for those possibly concerned with the way in which a writer and a story eventually find each other. The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey was my first attempt at telling that story, during the summer of 1962, when I was sharing a cabin in the Berkshires with my closest friend, who is a painter. But how different is Lost Journeyfrom the finished version? The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey is an early version of The Lost Unicorn.

That’s the basic story of the book and the movie.

Among other things, she is transformed into a human woman, learns what became of her people, faces down a terrifying monster, falls in love, and must make a decision that no immortal creature should ever be faced with. Reluctantly she sets out on a journey into the world beyond her wood, beyond her imagining: a world in which she had no interest and nothing at stake but her mission and her curiosity. The Last Unicorn is the story of a unicorn: immortal, solitary and self-contained, as all unicorns are perfectly content to range eternally over her fairytale forest, until she becomes aware that she might very well be the last of her kind. Beagle discusses The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey ( hardcover), an early version of his classic novel The Last Unicorn which is being newly reissued by Tachyon Publications.įor those who haven’t read The Lost Unicorn, what is the plot of that story?

In the following email interview, iconic fantasy writer Peter S.

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