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Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.
* Cassiopeia, a tortoise featured in Michael Ende's fantasy book Momo ( novel )
Ten stories in his next book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ), were based less on lavish fantasy than The Map of Love and more on real life romances featuring himself in Wales.
Although Bellamy claimed he did not write Looking Backward as a blueprint for political action, but rather sought to write " a literary fantasy, a fairy tale of social felicity ," the book inspired legions of inspired readers to establish so-called Nationalist Clubs, beginning in Boston late in 1888.
Patton published his first book (' Patton's 1989 Fantasy Baseball League Price Guide ") in 1989 and his dollar values were included in USA Today Baseball Weekly's fantasy annual throughout the 1990s.
At first the book wasn't meant for fantasy baseball fans, but rather as a book of Sabrmetric analysis.
She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.
In 1995, she appeared in the fantasy movie Jumanji, loosely based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 book of the same name.
Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix.
A quagga is one of the main characters in The Katurran Odyssey, a fantasy children's book by David Michael Wieger.
Today SJG publishes games of numerous varieties ( card games, board games, strategy games ) and genres ( fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror ); they also publish the book Principia Discordia, the sacred text of the Discordian religion.
Countering a presentist interpretation are those who say this approach misses out on much of the original's value as a children's book and as a work of high fantasy in its own right, and that it disregards the book's influence on these genres.
* The Shadow Rising, the fourth book in American author Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time
The Great Divorce is a work of fantasy by C. S. Lewis that is complementary to Lewis ' earlier book The Screwtape Letters.
* Thieves ' World, a shared world fantasy book series
* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.
Wilson was delighted with the adaptation, saying: " I was thunderstruck at what a magnificent job they did in capturing the exact tone and mixture of fantasy and reality in the book.
* Channeler ( The Wheel of Time ), fictional characters in the Wheel of Time fantasy book series by Robert Jordan
In an interview included with the audio book editions of his novels, author Robert Jordan has stated that his bestselling fantasy series The Wheel of Time borrows the titular concept from Hindu mythology.
Fellow fantasy author and long-time Wheel of Time fan Brandon Sanderson was brought in to complete the final book, but during the writing process it was decided that book would be far too large to be published in one volume, and would instead be published as three volumes as large as, or larger than, any previous book in the series.
The Eye of the World ( abbreviated as tEotW or EotW by fans ) is the first book of The Wheel of Time ( WoT ) fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan.
The Great Hunt ( abbreviated as tGH by fans ) is the second book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan.

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* Richard Rahl carries The Sword of Truth on a baldric in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series of the same name.
The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.
Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).
* The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis
* Cassiopea ( Encantadia ), the first Queen of Lireo in the Encantadia fantasy series of GMA Network
The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.
Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.
The city served as the venue for the medical dramas ER and Chicago Hope, as well as the fantasy drama series Early Edition and 2005 – 2009 drama Prison Break.
Not surprisingly there are also comic-strips / graphic novels in the humorous fantasy genre, including Chuck Whelon's Pewfell series and the webcomics 8-Bit Theater and The Order of the Stick.
Corum Jhaelen Irsei (" the Prince in the Scarlet Robe ") is the name of a fictional fantasy hero in a series of two trilogies written by author Michael Moorcock.
One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).
Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published 1950 to 1984.
* The Giak language in the Lone Wolf ( gamebooks ) series of interactive fantasy fiction by Joe Dever
Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).
* In George R. R. Martin's fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, armies are often referred to as hosts.
The Grail has been used as a theme in fantasy, historical fiction and science fiction ; a quest for the Grail appears in Bernard Cornwell's series of books The Grail Quest, set during The Hundred Years War.
Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.
His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.
Niven has also written a logical fantasy series The Magic Goes Away, which utilizes an exhaustible resource called Mana to power a rule-based " technological " magic.
Additionally, Roger Zelazny's fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber, features a labyrinth, called " the Pattern ", which grants those who walk it the power to move between parallel worlds.
* The Mole, a fictional character in three fantasy novels in Terry Brooks ' Shannara series
* Dr. Helen Magnus, Ashley Magnus, characters in the Canadian fantasy TV series Sanctuary

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