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Tag Archives: fantasy
Robert E. Howard’s Kull: Exile of Atlantis
I’m sitting here somewhat red in the face at having to admit that, though a long-standing aficionado of heroic fantasy, I’ve never read anything by Robert E. Howard. It’s an appalling failure on my part, happily now rectified by the … Continue reading
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Michael Moorcock’s Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné
Volume 1: The Stealer of Souls Volume 2: To Rescue Tanelorn Volume 3: The Sleeping Sorceress Volume 4: Duke Elric “Michael Moorcock.” Say that name three times at the dark of the moon and you will undoubtedly summon the spirit … Continue reading
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Michael Moorcock’s The Metatemporal Detective
The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of stories chronicling the various encounters between investigator Sir Seaton Begg and his arch-rival and distant cousin, a master criminal known as “Monsieur Zenith,” in various realms of the multiverse. The realms all occupy … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Jack of Kinrowan novels: Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon
Charles de Lint is known as “the godfather of urban fantasy,” and indeed, it’s in that genre that he’s made his mark – he’s never been a writer of heroic fantasy: in a better than thirty year career, very few … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s The Hour Before Dawn and Two Other Stories from Newford
This volume was my first encounter with Charles de Lint’s Newford. Strangely enough, these works, particularly the title story, remind me very strongly of some of Jonathan Lethem’s stories, and I couldn’t begin to say why. De Lint’s stories are … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Dreams Underfoot
Charles de Lint’s Dreams Underfoot is another collection of Newford stories, rather different in feel than those in The Ivory and the Horn. While that collection leaned more toward the “ghost stories” category, this one is much more inclined toward … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Dingo
Dingo represents a slight departure for Charles de Lint – or perhaps “expansion” is a better word. Leaving his signature blend of Celtic and North American folklore, he dips into the lore of Australia for this young adult story about … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Widdershins
I have been calling what Charles de Lint writes “urban fantasy.” He calls it “mythic fiction,” and I think he’s right. In fact, that may be a term that encompasses not only de Lint, but Neil Gaiman, John C. Wright, … Continue reading
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Tanya Huff’s The Future Falls
The Future Falls continues the saga of the Gale family, begun in The Enchantment Emporium and continued in The Wild Ways. The Gales are not your normal family, although certainly given to family politics and rivalries, with a few interesting … Continue reading
Thomas M. Disch’s The Word of God, or, Holy Writ Rewritten
Thomas M. Disch was best known in some circles as one of the New Wave generation of science fiction writers. In others, he was known as an accomplished poet, while in still others as an incisive and iconoclastic critic. “Iconoclast” … Continue reading