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From Nerd Game to Literary Glory

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 17, 2014
The role-playing fantasy game, Dungeons & Dragons, has just turned 40. And along with its enduring popularity comes a literary legacy: For certain writers, especially those raised in the 1970s…
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The Life Behind the Stories

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 27, 2014
Step inside Neil Gaiman’s surreal artistic world with Hayley Campbell’s recently released book examining his personal archives. Drawings, notes, and letters in The Art of Neil Gaiman give cult fans…
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Your Fantasy Is Hurting You

  • Serena Candelaria
  • February 4, 2014
When listening to a song, it becomes possible to slip out of reality and into a more idealized state as Chris Wallace writes in “Your Selfie Realization.” The trouble sets…
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Science Fiction, Fantasy Interactive Guide

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • October 20, 2011
Over the summer, NPR solicited listener nominations and votes to compile a giant list of the Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books. Then SF signal took it a step further by…
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Women in Fantasy

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • August 16, 2011
What is the problem with the representation of women in fantasy? This piece addresses the question, pointing to the lack of fantasy stories that reflect our basic contemporary understanding of…
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Celebrate The Anniversary Of A Wonderful Book

  • Michael Berger
  • April 8, 2010
There is nothing quite like reading Little, Big, John Crowley’s epic and elegantly subtle fantasy novel about a New England family and their mystifying relationship with the Fairy World. In…
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