Book ReviewsLovely, disciplined prose, a compelling first-person voice, and a deeply immersive story of Kvothe, a genuine modern classic of fantasy. It earns its rating on the merits, kept from the top tier only by the well-known problem that it opens…
Book ReviewsWhere do you start when you have to build an entire fantasy world from nothing? Williamson maps every system a built world needs and how they interlock, genuinely useful for a paralyzed new writer, especially a teen. It goes wide…
Book ReviewsA thorough alphabetical reference to Middle-earth, mapping the immense depth of Tolkien's legendarium, lands, peoples, histories, languages, both for readers and as a demonstration of the world-building standard he set. Held back by the interpretation any single-compiler guide to so…
Book ReviewsConcept art, designs, and developer insight documenting the creation of the early Final Fantasy games, beautifully produced. Not a writing book, but a rich world-building case study and a definitive visual record. Superb for its audience, niche for everyone else.
Book ReviewsSeven books in one box, a triumph of long-form popular storytelling whose planned arc deepens in darkness alongside its readers. A high point in Prisoner of Azkaban and not one weak entry. A model of long-game plotting and of sustaining…
Book ReviewsMost readers who love The Lord of the Rings buy this, read thirty pages, and quietly shelve it forever. It is not a novel but the mythology beneath the trilogy, a genuine slog as entertainment. Its value is to the…
Book ReviewsThe fifth Dimensional Alliance book stays deep in the aunt's journals: as Jenny recuperates from her last battle with the Groga, she keeps reading the writings of Lizzie Japhet, the woman who left her the house on Infinity Loop and…
Book ReviewsThe sixth Dimensional Alliance book closes the trilogy of the aunt's journals. With a week left in her convalescence, Jenny opens the last of Lizzie's journals and finds her aunt's adventures were beyond anything she had imagined. The payoff of…
1960sJason and the Argonauts is Ray Harryhausen's masterpiece. Bernard Herrmann composed the score in his fourth and final collaboration with Harryhausen.
1950sThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the film where Ray Harryhausen invented the modern fantasy adventure. Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad.
1990sMerlin is the NBC miniseries that retold the Arthurian legend from the wizard's perspective. Miranda Richardson plays Mab, the old goddess fighting against Christianity's spread through Britain.
Fantasy FictionCal Rourke corrects the false belief holding a ghost in a room. A literary novel about grief and certainty, with a therapist who will not pretend she believes any of it.
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