Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Nick Clark
Kelly Link’s unique take on the fantastic twists through a whimsical maelstrom of inventiveness in her award-winning short story collection, Magic for Beginners. Strands of myth, sci-fi and fable mingle…
magical realism
Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord
Mike Reeves-McMillan
There’s a small, but flourishing, group of Caribbean writers of African descent working in SFF at the moment, and I’m starting to read their work and, so far, finding it…
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
Robbie Cameron
In Shane Jones’ compact, experimental fairy tale, the month of February has lasted for hundreds of days. Winter persists, unshakeable. The skies over a small, nameless town have grown cold…
Quiz: First Lines of Fantasy Subgenres
Marsha A. Moore
After an exhaustive survey of fantasy subgenres in my past articles, I wanted to make one other comparison of the categories, arranged as a type of quiz. This fun activity…
The Shadowy Realistic Types of Fantasy: Magical Realism, Mythic Fiction, and Mythpunk
In my survey of fantasy subgenres, I’ve saved a comparison of perhaps the most elusive until the end of my series. These three purposely walk the line between reality and…