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From: FoundationIt is always cheering to clear up a troublesome literary and scientific mystery. Isaac Asimov's long-running chronicles of our future have posed one such problem, and now in his seventieth year the answer can at last be...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersMichael Moorcock is or at least has been a terrifyingly prolific author, who is pleased to make genre boundaries ooze and distort as in some painting by Dali. His mainstream work flows into his science fiction, the...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersBesides his scholarly work as an English don from 1925 to his death, C. S. Lewis had twin literary careers in fantasy and Christian apologetics—often shading into each other. Skipping the juvenilia (the Boxen animal...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersThe flamboyance and heightened colours of G. K. Chesterton's fiction make it harder than usual to draw the line where fantasy begins. Or indeed where fiction ends: thanks to his characteristic tools of parable and...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersRudyard Kipling is best remembered as the writer and poet of the British Empire in India: but within and outside this milieu, he wrote many remarkable science-fiction, fantasy and supernatural stories. These are...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersCharles Williams is best known for his weird and quirkily personal novels, all theological thrillers. Despite contemporary English settings, they tend to feature oddly-named characters, unlikely or stilted conversations...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersMichael Frayn is that rare phenomenon, an "outsider" from the "mainstream" (to use the agoraphobic language of genre) who moves in science fiction and fantasy without embarrassment—his or ours. This is achieved through...