A truly magical story that manages to transport the reader and make them enjoy a fantasy world that only some minds are capable of creating. With an elaborate, careful, sober, elegant language. Some descriptions in which, without even realizing it, you are involved in it, in each passage, with the vision that only a child would know how to enjoy. The characters seemed fantastic to me; Mr. Don Tiempo, Mr. Sueño, the Knight of the Days, the fairy Misfortune...really...

The papers focus on the theme of love and relationships in fantasy and science fiction, in all their forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Josephine Maria Yanasak- Leszczynski, Cheryl Wollner, Cheryl Morgan, AJ Dalton, Tatiana Fajardo, Christina Lake, Lynn O'Connacht, Steph P. Bianchini, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Barbara Stevenson, Dr. Ester Torredelforth.

Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that...

Este libro explora lo fantástico en la literatura peruana a través de un conjunto de ensayos dedicados a Clemente Palma, Abraham Valdelomar, César Vallejo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Luis Loayza, José Durand, Manuel Mejía Valera, José B. Adolph, Rodolfo Hinostroza, Harry Belevan, Carlos Calderón Fajardo y Enrique Prochazka; quienes contribuyen a la narrativa que cuestiona los usos realistas habituales.

This book captures the lives of the black race during imperialism and slavery. The story is about Ado a man who worked in a plantation farm with his wife and other slaves. He always had an ardent passion and longing for freedom. His wife Amari gave birth to Kofi his first born son who was intelligent and their master decided to free him and send him to college.

For more than four decades, David Bratman has established himself as a leading authority on J. R. R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and the enchanting realms of fantasy literature. Bratman's scholarly articles, captivating Mythopoeic Conference presentations, and esteemed editorial work for the newsletter Mythprint and the journal Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review have solidified his expertise. Now, in celebration of his profound contributions and...

The papers focus on the theme of worldbuilding in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Ricardo Victoria-Uribe and Martha Elba González- Alcaraz, Allen Stroud, Sarah McPherson, Sébastien Doubinsky, Cheryl Morgan, Peter Garrett, Eugen Bacon, Octavia Cade, Enrico Spadaro, Tatiana Fajardo, Claire Burgess, Ellen Forget, Kevin Cooney, Jyrki Korpua, Rachel Jones.

The 13 essays in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth foreground processes of making and constructing Arda– either within the Secondary world or for readers/viewers– and thus continually assert that the habitations form a vital part of the tales within that world. Because they assume a complex arrangement complete with social, familial, artistic, and political relations, cities and strongholds often define their inhabitants as crafting boundaries...

The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel… C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra-the second volume of Lewis's "Space Trilogy"-is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis's Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos explores how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. The first group of essays considers...

Since the publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, fantasy fiction authors have used not only literary tales to build intricate secondary worlds, but also maps and lore from classic and contemporary fantasythat pay increased attention to spatial levels of narrative. Acclaimed British writer Sir Terry Pratchett exhibited a critical awareness of such conscious world-making. In his Discworld series of novels, he created both a parody...