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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
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Tag Archives: fantasy
Marjorie Liu’s The Tangleroot Palace
Marjorie Liu’s The Tangleroot Palace collects a number of the author’s shorter works, including the one that gives the volume its title. Most of them fit well into the wheelhouse of the woman who gave the world Monstress, and her … Continue reading
Bill Willingham’s Fables Vol. 8: Wolves
This eighth installment of Bill Willingham’s long-running series of fairy tale characters alive and well in our world (and at war with a fierce Adversary) finds Mowgli of Jungle Book fame still hunting down the Big Bad Wolf on behalf … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Seventy-Five
Break out the champagne! Fables has reached issue number 75! I don’t recall us ever reviewing a single issue of an ongoing series, nor do our master review indexes — as maintained by our Library staff — show that we … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Fred Saberhagen’s The Face of Apollo: Book of the Gods Volume 1
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. I’ve enjoyed reading Fred Saberhagen’s novels for almost twenty years now. He is very talented, having the ability to breathe life into the worlds which he creates, worlds which become, for all intents and … Continue reading
Jason Branscum’s Beyond The Walls Of The World
Perhaps it was because I’d been editing some old GMR reviews of fantasy books by the likes of Kage Baker, Neil Gaiman, and Charles deLint, but I got a spooky sense of living oak trees dancing under a moonless sky … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged fantasy, Jazz music
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Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit
Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit is a romantic sci-fi novel and the premier work of the author. It is, for the moment, standalone, and a well paced, narratively satisfying volume. The setting features a combination of interplanetary travel and detailed political … Continue reading
Bruce Sterling’s Robot Artists & Black Swans
Bruce Sterling’s Robot Artists & Black Swans represents a fascinating concept. A set of science fiction stories told by a fictional Italian author from an Italian point of view. Coming from a classic master of cyberpunk, such a collection is … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction
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Larry Niven’s Rainbow Mars
Ah, to visit John Carter and the inhabitants of Barsoom, Edger Rice Burroughs’ richly imagined Mars. The characters in Robert Heinlein’s The Number of The Beast did so, in their travels across the multiverse, and now the protaganist of Rainbow … Continue reading
Andrew Stanton’s John Carter
I missed John Carter in the theaters, but ran across the DVD on one of my browsing trips through Amazon. I figured I’d probably enjoy it, and I found the DVD for half price. How could I say no? Edgar … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged fantasy, pulp fiction, science fiction
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Chloe Neill’s The Bright and Breaking Sea
Chloe Neill’s The Bright and Breaking Sea is a rollicking bit of historical fantasy that harkens back to Horatio Hornblower and other nautical adventures. Less adult than some of her urban fantasy work, this volume is clearly intended for a … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, YA fantasy
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