Tag Archives: fantasy literature

Ursula Le Guin’s The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin: The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real

Posted on 17th November 2016 by Cat Eldridge

I think the first piece of fiction I read by Ursula Le Guin was The Dispossessed followed closely by The Left Hand of Darkness. Sometime after that I read the original trilogy of novels that would eventually be seven novels … Continue reading →

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James Stoddard’s The High House and The False House

Posted on 9th November 2016 by Michael M. Jones

Welcome to the House that God built. Evenmere, the High House, that unending ever-changing building which crosses and contains worlds. It is, and represents, all Creation, an enigma, a parable, a mystery. Within its halls and rooms, passages and basements, … Continue reading →

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Pamela S. Gates, Susan B. Steffel and Francis J. Molson’s Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults

Posted on 2nd May 2016 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

I love smarting myself up. Just read that last sentence; increasing my mental capacity is obviously a good idea. So whenever I see a book that promises to tell me something I don’t know, I’m interested. Especially when the topic … Continue reading →

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Lord Dunsany’s The Collected Jorkens: Volumes One, Two, and Three

Posted on 16th April 2016 by Diverse Voices

Gary Turner wrote this review. Lord Dunsany was born in 1878 and died in 1957; he was born at a time when the sun never set on the British flag, trains ran at a breakneck speed of 30 mph or … Continue reading →

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Tim Powers’ Nobody’s Home

Posted on 14th December 2014 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

Tim Powers is well-known for taking an actual historical setting and taking that into something much more fanciful. So listen up as Richard Dansky tells us about his latest review: Returning to the world of a much-beloved story doesn’t always … Continue reading →

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Steven Brust’s Hawk

Posted on 1st December 2014 by Robert

With Hawk we reach number fourteen in Steven Brust’s Taltos Cycle, and things are about to change. Again. Vlad Taltos is tired of being on the run. The Organization – House Jhereg – has been hunting him for what seems … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s The Tyranny of the Night and Lord of the Silent Kingdom

Posted on 30th March 2014 by Robert

I’ve been an admirer of Glen Cook’s writing for many years, ever since I read Shadowline, the first book of the Starfishers series, way back when. I had never run into anyone who had quite that mix of myth and … Continue reading →

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Leona Wisoker’s Fires of the Desert

Posted on 11th July 2013 by Robert

Fires of the Desert is Book Four of Leona Wisoker’s series, Children of the Desert, and, just when you thought things couldn’t get more complex and difficult, they do, although thankfully the darkness of Bells of the Kingdom is ameliorated. … Continue reading →

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T.H. White’s The Once and Future King

Posted on 5th August 2012 by J.J.S. Boyce

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back. Do you know what is going to be written on … Continue reading →

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