Fantasy Creature Inspiration!
It’s hard to come up with valid articles that deals with fantasy. The reason being that there isn’t much in the realm of fantasy to really talk about that hasn’t already been discussed to death. I will certainly discuss things if they come up in a comment, but generally I think you can find the […]
Don’t Write Speculative Fiction If…
…any of the following things are true. Science Fiction: You can’t handle the idea that your audience is smaller than fantasy and more specific. You think science fiction is retelling Star Wars or Star Trek ad naseum. You believe that FTL travel is logical and implies ‘hard’ science fiction. You think populating all alien planets […]
World Fantasy Award Winners!
Well, everyone else is talking about it, so I might as well tell all my readers who the winners were at the World Fantasy Awards this year. Lifetime AchievementDiane Wynne Jones and Betty BallantineNovelSoldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)Novella“Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)Short Fiction“Journey Into the Kingdom”, M. Rickert […]
Realistic Fantasy Required!
I believe that of all writers, fantasy writers have the hardest job. This is of course excluding textbook writers. I also will not address young adult fiction here because I believe that young adult fantasy is an entirely different genre from regular fantasy simply because the rules on what works are tremendously different. Children and […]
Sacrificing Quality For Style in Spec. Lit.
To say that the idea of sacrificing quality for style applies only to speculative literature would be a severe misrepresentation of the truth. However, speculative literature has one problem that literary fiction seems to either be incapable of addressing or simply never plans to address in the first place: speculative literature must always entertain. This […]
A Dialogue of War (in fantasy)
This very subject was brought up by SQT in her recent post. I don’t want to steal the spotlight from her very well drawn analysis, but I did feel like addressing the issue a bit myself.SQT is very right that it seems that fantasy is overridden with novels that focus on war. I can’t think […]