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Tag Archives: fantasy
Charles de Lint’s Into the Green
Angharad was born a tinker. She has always had the Sight, but one day two witches, Woodfrost and his grandson Garrow, join her father’s travelling company, and from them she learns just what having the Sight means. They tell her … Continue reading
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Charles de Lint’s The Harp of the Grey Rose: The Legend of Cerin Songweaver
Cerin lost both of his parents before he could remember them, and was raised by Tess Kelledy, a witch-wife who came from the tinker people. When Cerin comes of age, he feels set apart from the other boys of his … Continue reading
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Steven Brust’s The Viscount of Adrilankha Adventures: The Paths of the Dead and The Lord of Castle Black
An interregnum is a time of confusion. It’s also a time of opportunity. With all political and magical systems suspended, anything can happen. It’s a perfect time to be young, and Piro, Zerika, Ibronka, Kytraan, Röaana and Morrolan are young. … Continue reading
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Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg’s Once Upon a Crime
Fairy tales had a major impact on shaping the imagination of folks long before they were first written down. And mystery fiction goes back many, many centuries as a genre. The themes that were the basis of the material shaped … Continue reading
Emma Bull and Will Shetterly’s Double Feature
If any of you readingthis are fans of Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks novel, or Will Shetterly’s Bordertown novels, you’re familiar with these two wonderful authors. What you may not know is that they are married to each other. Really. Truly. Now imagine … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. This classic fantasy series is often compared to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, but this is not a fair comparison. Although all three can be read as … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber: Nine Princes in Amber audiobook
Unlike the two Zelazny audiobooks that I listened to recently, Isle of Dead and My Name is Legion, which don’t exist in an easily obtainable and definitely legal manner, this is a work that can be purchased at any online … Continue reading
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Emma Bull’s Finder
Emma Bull has written a fair number of novels in her career and all of them are superb in their own way. Be it Bone Dance, Finder or War for The Oaks, all are superbly written. So when I recently was … Continue reading
Peter S. Beagle’s The Innkeeper’s Song
Whenever I discuss writing fantasy with young authors and would-be authors, the question of how to avoid the clichés of classic fantasy inevitably comes up. One answer, of course, is to avoid writing classic fantasy. Most find this solution unsatisfactory. … Continue reading
China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun
China Miéville (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, The Iron Council) is renowned for the world he has created around the great, multi-species, many-storied city of New Crobuzon. Those are adult works, beyond a doubt: ferocious and frightening, full of the … Continue reading
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