Storyworld First
Where 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…
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Book ReviewsThe Complete Tolkien Companion
A 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 ReviewsFinal Fantasy Ultimania Archive Volume 1
Concept 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 ReviewsHarry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
Seven 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 master class in long-game plotting and sustaining…
Book ReviewsThe Silmarillion
Most 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 ReviewsLinks to Infinity
The 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…
Book ReviewsChords of Infinity
The 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…
1960sJason and the Argonauts (1963)
Jason 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 (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the film where Ray Harryhausen invented the modern fantasy adventure. Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad.
1990sMerlin (1998)
Merlin 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 FictionGhost Healer
Cal 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.
Fantasy FictionGrim
Grim has assessed the dead since before there was a word for death. Forty thousand years of the same job, and a functionary who starts watching where the dead actually go.