Tight prose is often wanting when it comes to fantasy, and a book like The Steel Remains is a breath of much-needed fresh air.
Our adult interests are those best pursued in the cool, dark places of the world: We are film dorks, comic-book geeks, fantasy-lit fans, indie-music nerds.
It took Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian 17 years to find a publisher for her now twelve-book Tara Duncan fantasy novel series before a publisher in France, where she lives, made the leap in 2003.
Yet Jewball is also a book that relishes in genre fantasy.
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Dallas luxury purveyor Neiman Marcus has unleashed its annual Christmas Book, and the customary fantasy gifts in it this year are as creative as ever.
But even putting aside the fact that pre-war America is one of the richest settings of the modern era, in terms of potential for rich narrative, this book just feels more like fantasy than historical fiction.
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Fifty years ago, the book was viewed as a dystopian fantasy.
The epic fantasy adventure is a dramatisation of the second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels by George RR Martin.
Such a book might ignite a campaign for real fantasy, rekindling a desire for moving, vital fantasy that transcends the trilogies of magic elves and dwarves and identikit pastorals that pass for fantasy in today's mass market.
Martin's fantasy novel "A Dance With Dragons" finished the book, and spent an average of 20 hours reading it, a relatively fast read for a 1, 040-page novel.
It's an incredibly helpful way to keep track of the hundreds of characters in fantasy novels (or just the five characters in a regular book).
The Sookie novels, which blend crime, romance and fantasy, attract readers of all three genres, who tend to be voracious book buyers and obsessive fans.
Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.
Yet he keeps fact and fantasy clear enough in his own head and, despite a sympathetic ear, cannot really hide the fact that this book is an extended visit to the epistemic zoo.
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