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Tag Archives: fantasy
Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn was originally published in 1968, and has never been out of print. There have been innumerable editions; my favorite covers are the original Viking hardcover (inexplicable Peter Max-style titles on a black background) and the original 1969 … Continue reading
John Crowley’s Little, Big
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Practically by definition, fantasy has often been the most retrograde of all of the current popular genres of literature. It is the one style of writing that is most intent on not only looking backward in … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s The Riddle of The Wren
Naomi De Bruyn penned this review. If one chooses to, one can go back and find the time when any author was unknown. For Canadian fantasist Charles de Lint, that time was at an end with the release of Riddle of the … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Eyes Like Leaves
It all begins with a dream, a long-awaited summoning that calls the tree-wizard Tarn into action after ages of quiet waiting. Compelled by the god known as Hafarl the Summerlord to seek out those with the Summerlord’s blood in their … Continue reading
Terri Windling and Delia Sherman’s The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller’s Guide to the Edge of Faerie
Bordertown is a city that was created (or discovered, if you’re a believer) by Tor editor Terri Windling. Like all places magical, it’s the sort of city you can always find–if you are meant to. It’s a place that has grown … Continue reading
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Patricia A. McKillip’s Alphabet of Thorn
His name was Daimon. Nepenthe had known him all her life, for he had found her and named her. Of the child she had been before she became Nepenthe, neither of them knew a thing. In sixteen years since then, … Continue reading
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Diana Wynne Jones’ The Merlin Conspiracy
Of the over forty books Diana Wynne Jones has written to date, I’ve read more than twenty. Her novel Fire and Hemlock, which draws on the legends of Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer, is one of my favorite books, … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Wolf Moon
“Wolf Moon is an old favorite of mine. I remember at the time I started to work on it that I wanted to write a small story in a high fantasy setting. Worlds didn’t need to be saved. The characters weren’t … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Spirits in the Wires
I was expecting the advance uncorrected proof of Charles de Lint’s Spirits in the Wires, the latest tale out of Newford, to arrive on Monday. By Tuesday, I was pacing. It finally came via Fedex early Tuesday evening, and I finished … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s Refinerytown
Charles de Lint has a tradition of writing a short story every year, publishing it privately in chapbook form, and giving it to friends as gifts. Those of us devoted de Lint readers who have heard about, but never seen, … Continue reading
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