Tag Archives: fantasy

Lloyd Alexander’s Time Cat

Posted on 18th June 2024 by Leona Wisoker

Jason’s in trouble. He’s been sent to his room for, among other things, spilling paint on the dining room table, punching his younger brother for laughing at him, and talking back to his mother. Sulking in his room, he turns … Continue reading →

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Charles de Lint’s Svaha

Posted on 18th June 2024 by Diverse Voices

Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Svaha is a little different from what we are accustomed to seeing from Canadian fantasist Charles de Lint, being much more science fiction than fantasy. However, there are elements of urban and mythic fantasy … Continue reading →

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Charles de Lint’s Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks

Posted on 18th June 2024 by Jayme Lynn Blaschke

This, quite honestly, is a book that I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on for quite some time. Years, in fact, long before the good people at Subterranean Press announced they would be putting forth this massive collection, … Continue reading →

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Charles de Lint’s The Ivory and The Horn

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Richard Dansky

Imagine a Charles de Lint short story collection as the literary equivalent of a box of Godiva chocolates. Each individual tidbit is luscious, rich, and sensuously delicious. Unfortunately, if you eat the whole box at once, those qualities tend to … Continue reading →

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Charles de Lint’s Waifs and Strays

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Michael M. Jones

When I read Charles de Lint, I don’t just pay attention to the words. I slow down and listen to the rhythms the words make. I look for the underlying patterns of color and music that so thoroughly insinuate themselves … Continue reading →

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Kath Filmer-Davies’s Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth: Tales of Belonging

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Cat Eldridge

Contemporary fantasy writers such as Susan Cooper and Jane Yolen are drawing more and more on ancient Welsh mythic tales and folklore as the basis of their stories. (See Grey Walker’s review of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising series.) … Continue reading →

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Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Diverse Voices

Rebecca Swain wrote this review. “Not by appointment do we meet delight,” poet Gerald Massey said, and I have found this to be true. I met one of the greatest delights of my life while browsing in my high school … Continue reading →

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Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and The Castle of Llyr audiobooks, read by James Langton

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Kim Bates

Lloyd Alexander brought magic to my childhood, never more so than with the five books collectively called the Chronicles of Prydain. I adored these books, and read them time on time. They were for me what the Harry Potter series … Continue reading →

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Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye’s License Invoked

Posted on 7th June 2024 by Michael M. Jones

They’re not Mully and Sculder, or whoever those two are. Not by a long shot. In fact, the only thing Liz Mayfield and Boo-Boo Boudreau have in common with the Dynamic Duo of the X-Files is that they’re both government … Continue reading →

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Larry Doyle’s Go, Mutants!

Posted on 7th June 2024 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

“People are human beings . . . even if they aren’t.” You remember high school. Knowledge you were sure would never be needed once you could grab your diploma and really start living, dances that were so much better in … Continue reading →

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