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Tag Archives: fantasy
Neil Bartlett: Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall
I don’t remember when I first read Neil Bartlett’s Ready To Catch Him Should He fall. It was probably sometime in the 1990s, but at this point I’ve read it several times, most recently after seeing John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus. … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, gay & lesbian fiction
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Patricia A. McKillip’s The Riddle-Master of Hed; Heir of Sea and Fire; Harpist in the Wind
I was surprised some while back to discover that Patricia A. McKillip’s Riddle-Master Trilogy was marketed as young-adult fantasy when it was first published. I don’t think I’m particularly backward in terms of understanding what I read, and I was … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, YA literature
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Leona R. Wisoker’s Fallen City
Leona Wisoker’s Fallen City is described as “a supplement to Children of the Desert“. It’s the story of the origin of the Desert and the Desert Families, and to a certain extent, the story of the early years of Deiq, … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Winterlong
Elizabeth Hand’s Winterlong is not an easy book. It challenges the reader from the first page – really, the first sentence. It sprawls across genre boundaries as if they weren’t there, effortlessly mixing mythopoeic fantasy with horror with post-apocalyptic science fiction with … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review. Katherine Sweeney Cassidy is a new student at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, simply called ‘the Divine’ by those familiar with it. The student body is composed of various … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Saffron and Brimstone
The title of Elizabeth Hand’s new collection of short stories is just one of the many clever things about this book, referencing the two stories that begin and end the collection, “Cleopatra Brimstone” and “The Saffron Gatherers,” respectively. However, despite … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light
Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light is a foray into the world of dark gods, misty legends, and deep secrets. Lit Moylan (her real name is Charlotte) is about to finish high school. She lives with her parents in Kamensic, New York, a village … Continue reading
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Salon Fantastique
Datlow and Windling are old hands at editing anthologies at this point, and they’re exceedingly good at it. Salon Fantastique is their latest offering, a collection of fifteen previously unpublished fantasy stories from both established ( e.g., Peter Beagle, Jeffrey McGuire, Delia … Continue reading
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inevitably, I found myself catching the first local showing of Peter Jackson’s latest entry into his J. R. R. Tolkien sweepstakes, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It was better than I expected. Thorin Oakinshield (Richard Armitage) is being watched … Continue reading
Patti Perret’s The Faces of Fantasy
If The Faces of Science Fiction suffered from a shitty printing effort and I’ll say it did, The Faces of Fantasy is quite the opposite with everything did in a manner befitting the subject. Now I’ll admit that over a … Continue reading