Fantasy Makes History Cool
Nicole Singer
I’m a history major at heart, so one of the things I love seeing in fantasy is how authors draw on real-world history to fuel their worlds. Whether it be…
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Monthly Short Story Winner: Apprenticeship
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Trailer for Telltale’s Game of Thrones
Overlord
Lets be honest, to date, there have been two types of Game of Thrones game: 1) Bad, 2) Terrible. However, ever since we heard Telltale had hooked up with HBO…
Class Warfare: Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Literary Fiction
Zachary A. Matzo
The line drawn between so-called literary fiction and genre fiction has always irked me. As I embarked upon a re-read of the first two volumes of Lev Grossman’s frustrating Magicians…
Fantasy Worldbuilding – Ideas for Designing a Civilization
B. Pine
The period in history between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, the period we call the Middle Ages, seem to go hand in hand with epic fantasy. Of course, there are…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Taboos
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer
Jennie Ivins
Today the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was released. And it is impressive! Before you read farther, go watch it! Do it! Amazing right? If the trailer is any…
Jurassic World Trailer released 2 days early!
When I was a kid dinosaurs were huge. Not literally, well, yes, literally – kinda – I guess they were extinct, but… ah, you know what I mean: popular. So,…
Maleficent – Movie Review
Karl Wolfenden
Maleficent shows us how far the modern fantasy genre has come, and not just in terms of the subject matter and frequency of adaptations either, but also in terms of…
Faeries and Folklore – Part Three: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Leo Elijah Cristea
Last time we looked at how faeries have evolved, through some of their integral folklore as well as the genre as a whole. Some changes have been marked, others more…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Show-Stopping Speech
Eric Christensen
On November 19, Ursula K. Le Guin received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, celebrating her lifetime of achievement. The author of A Wizard of…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Portal Fantasy
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…