Fantasy Novel Repeats
July 23, 2012Recently, I read The Orphan King by Sigmund Brouwer, a historical fantasy novel that released this month. The concept seemed familiar, and the further I…
Recently, I read The Orphan King by Sigmund Brouwer, a historical fantasy novel that released this month. The concept seemed familiar, and the further I…
As the world of books and publishing evolves, perhaps it’s natural that people began to consider the fusion of books and music. For some time,…
For countless years, fairy tales have been told and retold, and right now there’s a strong growth of re-imagined fairy tales in both books and…
Even the seemingly small and insignificant may have souls of great courage. Don’t we cheer all the more for a character who determines to do…
Fantasy deals with worlds other than our own, yet it has strong application to the realities of life. Allegory, supposal, applicability, or the range in…
Although I’m not generally a short story reader, one of the purposes of this blog is to make known different sources of Christian fantasy. And…
A recent New York Times article highlighted a loosely collaborative project between the grandson of Tolkien and the great-great-grandson of Dickens.The project consists of two…
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to…
For hundreds of years, novels have followed distinct trends as genres and styles rise and fall in popularity. These literary trends might appear in the…
As a life-long reader of fantasy, most of the genre conventions seem normal to me. Strange names, new languages, different rules of reality, the period…