Blogs Posts in Fantasy category; 26 blog posts

Waking the Dreamer

Tyler Ford is a thirteen-year-old boy who's on a family vacation, stuck with his odd and irritating parents and his cool older brother. Tyler meets Eena, a girl who Tyler quickly realizes hides a strange mystery. After a midnight [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Book review: Amanda Hocking – Switched

There have been great rumblings in the literary world recently, all fuelled by that self-publishing powerhouse, 27-year-old Amanda Hocking who is now unofficially titled the ‘Ebook Queen’. A former struggling writer receiving [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tol...

This is a nice, wide-ranging overview of the fantastic in literature (covering fantasy, horror, the weird tale, etc.). It's basically a long-form essay broken down into different approaches, periods and countries - the extra space is [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories

An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Hoppy Hanukkah by Linda Glaser

Violet and Simon, two small bunnies, are excited about Hanukkah. Simon is ready to light all the candles and then blow them right out! But Mama and Papa explain how to celebrate Hanukkah by lighting one candle each night at sunset and plac [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - 9 Dragons

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the sto [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Comic Book Review Warlash: Dark Noir #2

Dark Noir is like Arthur C Clarke’s third law (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic) applied to crime fiction in that if you take a police procedural story and push it far enough into the future then it [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

The Dragons of Ordinary Farm Book Review

Tyler and Lucinda have to spend summer vacation with their ancient uncle Gideon, a farmer. They think they're in for six weeks of cows, sheep, horses, and pigs. But when they arrive in deserted Standard Valley, California, they discover tha [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Book review of Shared Fantasy

Gary Alan Fine's book, Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds, provides an enlightening overview of the state of gaming in the early eighties. Fine, a sociologist, inhabits the gaming cultures he reviews, reporting on Dungeons [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews - Geoff Hill's

I have stumbled upon the motorcycling adventure books I've read usually when they're referred to in motorcycling catalogs such as Aerostich's motorcycling catalog, or they're mentioned in a blog or website. Such was the case with the works [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

D&D Core Book Sequels Hold Awesome Stuff, Not Leftovers

It’s tempting to look at recent D&D releases like the Monster Manual 2 and Player’s Handbook 2 as being full of B-list material that was rightfully axed from the originals. This is definitely not the case. Here’s the [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

A round-up of comic book reviews and thinkpieces

Tucker Stone ruminates on the wonder that is G.I. Joe: “This is pretty solid comics–it’s aggressive, it’s far more cynical and hard boiled than I’d imagine a comic based off a toy empire to be, and as long as I [...]

Posted On : May, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Everyones A Critic - A roundup of comic book reviews and thi...

Note to writers, artists, cartoonists and other people who make stuff: No matter how negative, nasty, mean-spirited or just plain harsh a critic is in reviewing your work, posting a smart-ass reply in the comments section of their blog is [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

The Reread Reviews - Batman: The Long Halloween

A modern “classic” that inspired some of the key elements in The Dark Knight… well, maybe I agree, maybe I don’t. You’ll have to read to see. There will be spoilers. It was competent and did the job, but didn& [...]