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Tag Archives: urban fantasy
Bill Willingham’s Fables, Volume 6: Homelands, and Volume 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)
Bill Willingham’s wonderfully developed series about fairy tales living among us today (see Fables 1-2 and 3-5) extends two more volumes with Homelands and Arabian Nights. Artists on Homelands are Mark Buckingham, David Hahn and Steve Leialoha; artists on Arabian … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Neal Asher’s Brass Man
Here at the Green Man corporate offices, we spend a lot of time in meetings with statistics and pie charts, trying to determine just what exactly it is that we review here. Fantasy, folklore, and a bit of history seems … Continue reading
Ilona Andrews’s Magic Bites and Magic Burns
In the semi-near future, Atlanta has become a strange and dangerous place to live. Waves of magic sweep over the world with unpredictable frequency, canceling out all things technological for the length of their duration. The supernatural is in full … Continue reading
F. Paul Wilson’s The Haunted Air
As I said in my omnibus look at the previous volumes in this series, ‘Sometimes why we review something here at Green Man is as interesting as what we review. I honestly had not planned on reviewing this series, as … Continue reading
Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream
Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream is an anthology that also serves as a love letter to the Deamlands stories of H.P. Lovecraft and others. Filled with carefully chosen stories themed after dreams and a … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, urban fantasy
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Vol. 8: Wolves
This eighth installment of Bill Willingham’s long-running series of fairy tale characters alive and well in our world (and at war with a fierce Adversary) finds Mowgli of Jungle Book fame still hunting down the Big Bad Wolf on behalf … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Seventy-Five
Break out the champagne! Fables has reached issue number 75! I don’t recall us ever reviewing a single issue of an ongoing series, nor do our master review indexes — as maintained by our Library staff — show that we … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, urban fantasy
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P. Djèlí Clark’s A Master of Djinn audiobook
I’ve been looking forward to P. Djèlí Clark writing a full length novel in what he is now calling his ongoing Dead Djinn series ever since I first listened to The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo, both … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, urban fantasy
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Simon R. Green’s The Best Thing You Can Steal audiobook
The Best Thing You Can Steal is the first novel in the Gideon Sable series, one of two new series from this author. I am told by one of Green’s staff that there will be at least three novels from Baen, as … Continue reading
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Tagged urban fantasy
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Kevin Hearne’s A Plague of Giants
The author of the best-selling urban fantasy series The Iron Druid Chronicles has begun a new series that promises to be, well, huge. Kevin Hearne’s new The Seven Kennings series begins with A Plague of Giants. It’s a hefty tome … Continue reading