Series
The Gryphon Saga
Andre Norton & A. C. Crispin · 3 novels · 1972–1984
The Gryphon Saga is a high-fantasy trilogy that opens with Andre Norton's 1972 novel The Crystal Gryphon, continuing with two further volumes, Gryphon in Glory and Gryphon's Eyrie, co-written with A. C. Crispin. It follows a shape common in Norton's fantasy work: a threatened nobility, ancestral magic tied to gryphon imagery, and a quest to set right an old wrong.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Gryphon Saga at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Crystal Gryphondarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense