Clive Barker’s Imagica is more than the world; it’s five. Four of them have reconciled with each other, and one – ours, the Earth – is removed from the rest. But reconciliation may be upon us.
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Tales Before Tolkien confirmed my love for more modern fantasy
Douglas A. Anderson’s collection of stories gathered in Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy appears to be more from before Tolkien’s works were published than “classic stories that inspired the author of The Lord of the Rings” but I can’t fault the publisher for trying to drum up sales.
Of the 21 stories that make up this collection, there were only a handful I enjoyed and four that I truly loved…
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Hope woven through soon-to-be-legendary Astrid Falls
“Vancouver is falling down–crumbling into sand. To save it, Astrid O’Brien boards a bus to a parallel dimension, there to confront the demons of the city, and to answer the question: Are we who we’re told we are, or who we decide to be?” This is the back cover synopsis for Andrew Cownden’s debut novel Astrid Falls: A Legend of Vancouver. And it is not a book to skip, but one to read and discuss with friends. Who are you?…
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Early Internet Offers Practical Fantasy in Magic of the Plains: By the Sword (A Book Review)
Never judge a book by its cover. This may be true, but for honesty’s sake, I must say that the reason I chose to pick up Magic of the Plains: By the Sword Volume 1 by Greg Costikayan was exactly because of its cover. Particularly, I got it for its back cover which states “BY THE SWORD MAGIC OF THE PLAINS As seen on Prodigy®.” For those of you my age, this will have a certain mystique.
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Don’t let Baldree’s second cozy fantasy novel gather Bonedust
Travis Baldree has returned to the cozy fantasy world established in Legends & Lattes with the prequel Bookshops & Bonedust. This time, instead of choosing to stop adventuring and open a coffee shop in the city of Thune, Viv is wounded in battle and dumped in the small backwater beach town of Murk.
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