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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSEdible Wild Plants of Nova Scotia (West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia: Eastern Shore Publishing Collective, 1976).Edible Wild Plants of the Maritimes (West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia: Wooden...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Frank Herbert's science fiction is deeply humanistic, an amalgam of history, philosophy, theology, psychology, and science that explores man's future in terms of his past. Though peopling distant worlds with both alien...
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From: Analog Science Fiction and FactDiana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is a pleasant little jape, a thoroughly tongue-in-cheek send-up of all--it's hard to imagine missing one in three hundred pages!--the clichés rampant in fantasy. Her...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersMercedes Lackey must surely win a prize for being the most prolific writer in the fantasy field over the past eight years. Whether individually or in collaboration, she has produced an astonishing number of novels since...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersAlthough James Stephens can be read and appreciated as a fantasy writer in the modern sense, there are three alternative contexts which may better account for some aspects of his work. First, Stephens is one...
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From: Victorian Poetry[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Bentley interprets "The Blessed Damozel" as a poem celebratory of "medieval-Catholic awareness."] Early in 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti submitted several poems to Leigh Hunt...
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From: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Pennington studies the critical reception of Watership Down and the novel's attempts to fashion a mythological bridge between the reader and the natural world.] Richard Adams'...
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From: National Catholic Reporter[(review date 3 October 2003) In the following review, Greeley criticizes Brown's representation of history and the Catholic Church in The Da Vinci Code, asserting that Brown's novel is filled with historical...
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From: Harvard Educational Review[(essay date spring 2001) In the following essay, Nye offers assessments of the first four Harry Potter novels--Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,Harry Potter and the Prisoner...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Anne McCaffrey, creator of Pern, planet of telepathic dragons and their riders, is a builder of other complex universes. She is also creator of the psi Talent world of the Rowan, the crystal world of Killashandra Ree,...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSEn hommage aux araignées (Montreal: L'Actuelle, 1974); republished as L'Etranger sous la ville (Montreal: Editions Paulines, 1986).Der Träumer in der Zitadelle, German translation by Otto...
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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)Maurice Gee, in his vision of the traditional fantasy struggle between good and evil, sees evil as the abuse of power, with pollution and devastation as a result. Under the Mountain portrays huge, worm-like creatures...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersIt was while walking his St. Bernard dog in Kensington Gardens that J. M. Barrie—already established as a novelist and playwright—first met the children of lawyer Arthur Llewellyn Davies, with whom he entered into a...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)There is no doubt that Leslie A. Fiedler aimed from his professional beginnings to be not just a critic but a genuine all-round man-of-letters, publishing not only controversial essays but also poetry and fiction soon...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Best known as the author of Dianetics and the founder of the Dianetics-based Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific writer of pulp adventure fiction during the 1930s and 1940s. Much of his SF and fantasy,...
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From: England's Antiphon[A Scottish man of letters, MacDonald was a key figure in shaping the fantastic and mythopoeic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such novels as Phantastes (1858) and The Princess and the Goblin (1872)...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 121. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Rudolfo AnayaBless Me, Ultima (novel) 1972Richard BachJonathan Livingston Seagull [photographs by Russell Munson] (juvenile fiction) 1970Judy BlumeAre You There God? It's Me, Margaret (young adult...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersRichard Adams is probably best known for his classic novel Watership Down, marketed for juveniles in England and for adults in America. He reportedly composed the book to amuse his two daughters who insisted that he...
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From: Keats-Shelley Journal[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Lansdown investigates elements of fantasy as well as autobiography in Sardanapalus.] Our sense of the individuality of the artist is inseparable from our sense of the human...
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From: Biography[(essay date fall 1985) In the following essay, McAdams examines the ways in which Mishima's fantasies are played out in his fiction.] By the time the lieutenant had at last drawn the sword across to the right side of...