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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 ).

* 2008 – Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator.

Along with Steve Jackson he is the co-founder of the popular and influential series of Fighting Fantasy roleplaying gamebook series and author of many books within that series.

The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy and published as a book by Atheneum in 1971.

* Christopher Stasheff, Fantasy author

Peter Milligan penned the other new series, Enigma, and continued Shade, the Changing Man, while Ennis continued Hellblazer, Delano wrote Animal Man, Fantasy author Rachel Pollack took over Doom Patrol and Horror author Nancy Collins wrote Swamp Thing.

* Blood of the Mantis, a 2009 Fantasy novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky ( and set in a fictional universe where different human races are modeled on different insects ) is dedicated to Fabre.

Fantasy author Kathryn Wesley wrote a novelization of Hwang's teleplay for The Lost Empire under the title The Monkey King.

* Fantasy author Karl Edward Wagner wrote a series of novels and stories about an immortal red-bearded warrior named Kane, who is clearly modeled on the biblical Cain.

Mr. Met was portrayed from 1994 through 1997 by AJ Mass, currently a fantasy sports writer for ESPN and author of the book How Fantasy Sports Explains the World, published in August 2011.

" Tolkien fandom " in this sense sprang up in the USA in the 1960s, in the context of the hippie movement, to the dismay of the author ( Tolkien died in 1973 ), who talked of " my deplorable cultus ".< ref name = Grossman > Lev Grossman, Feeding on Fantasy Time. com, November 24, 2002

She is the author of a national sentimentality trilogy beginning with The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life ( 1991 ), which looks at the relation between modes of belonging mediated by the state and the law, modes of belonging mediated by the aesthetic, and especially by genre, and modes that grow from within the everyday life of social relations.

When David Pringle chose it for inclusion in his book Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels, he described the novel as " a playful metafiction about the real and the fictitious, about the writer and his or her creation …" and concluded that the novel is "… a gripping and intelligent tale of the supernatural by an author who is adept at avoiding most of the clichés of the horror genre.

Eberron was created by author and game designer Keith Baker as the winning entry for Wizards of the Coast's Fantasy Setting Search, a competition run in 2002 to establish a new setting for the Dungeons and Dragons game.

Audio recording of author panel discussion from First World Fantasy Convention, Providence, 1975.

Also in 1982, American author Jeffrey C. Dillow published solo adventures in book format for his High Fantasy role-playing game which, unlike previous RPG solitaire adventures, included all rules required for play.

42 Entertainment had previously created the first ARG, The Beast, which had been used to promote the movie A. I .. Other members of the I Love Bees team included Sean Stewart, a World Fantasy Award-award-winning author who served as I Love Bees writer, and Jim Stewartson, I Love Bees technical lead who produced the first commercial 3D game delivered by the internet.

In The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines ( 2009 ), author Mike Madrid states that what set Barbara Gordon as Batgirl apart from other female characters was her motivation for crime-fighting.

In The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines ( 2009 ), author Mike Madrid states that what set Barbara Gordon as Batgirl apart from other female characters was her motivation for crime-fighting.

Fantasy author and Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard, a big fan of Bunky, was fond of quoting from the strip, as noted by his friend, Tevis Clyde Smith.

Fantasy / horror author Neil Gaiman uses the " Larry Talbot " character in two selections from his short story collection Smoke and Mirrors.

Fantasy has been distinguished from other forms of literature by its style and its freedom of expression wherein an author has the ability to use any story-telling element to strengthen the narrative ; whether it be dragons, magic and castles or the lack thereof.

* “ The Man From Shemhaza ” in Thieves ' World: Enemies of Fortune ( 2004, edited by Lynn Abbey ), reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 5 ( 2005, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer )

An internet website announces it is selling the copy of the Double Fantasy album that John Lennon autographed for his killer, Mark David Chapman, for $ 530, 000 dollars.

Derrick Sobodash ( Shadow ) and David Timko both saw the Archaic Ruins website and contacted Som2Freak expressing interest in translating Final Fantasy V. He provided each with some primitive tools, and for the next few months, Shadow and Timko worked against each other.

That same year, Basil appeared on BBC comedy series Fantasy Football League with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel – his first television appearance in over a decade.

In November 1977, Fantasy appointed long-time Stax writer / producer David Porter to head up a revived version of the Stax label which was relaunched in January 1978.

He edited Science Fantasy magazine for a period from 1964 to 1966, appointed by David Warburton of Roberts and Vinter Ltd .; and the successor Impulse for its first few issues in 1966 before handing the reins to Harry Harrison.

Working closely with long-time collaborator David Kalish, with whom Jones first worked on 1981's Pirates, Jones released Balm in Gilead on the Fantasy label in November 2009.

The first volume in the series was included in David Pringle's book Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels.

He often works with best friend and ex-flatmate David Baddiel, notably on the popular late night entertainment show Fantasy Football League, from 1994 to 2004 and on Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 to 2005.

* 1976, World Fantasy Award, Special Award-Non-Professional to Karl Edward Wagner, David Drake & Jim Groce for Carcosa.

* Worlds Within Worlds: The First Heroic Fantasy by Matthew David Surridge.

Splatterpunk — a term coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island — refers to a movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence and " hyperintensive horror with no limits.

After his retirement Astle launched an industrial cleaning business, working around the Burton upon Trent area ; latterly he also made TV comedy appearances with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel on Fantasy Football League.

Despite moderate success, Lee's fame did not derive so much from his talent as the decision of Frank Skinner and David Baddiel to lampoon him, obsessively taking shots at his " pineapple " haircut on their laddish football chat show Fantasy Football League.

* Galad Elflandsson " David Lindsay and the Quest for Muspel-Fire " in Darrell Schweitzer ( ed ) Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction, Gillette NJ: Wildside Press, 1986, pp. 104-112.

The novel was a selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club, and it was included in several lists of recommended reading: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels ( 1988 ), Aurel Guillemette's The Best in Science Fiction ( 1993 ), David Pringle's Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction ( 1995 ) and the Locus Reader's Poll: Best Science Fiction Novel ( 1988 ).

"-Stuart David Schiff, winner of the Hugo Award, twice winner of the World Fantasy Award, editor of the acclaimed Whispers anthologies

IGN editor David Smith called him charming, adding that he breaks the streak of " reluctant Final Fantasy heroes ", by " injecting a touch of redder blood back into the series ".

In October 2007, Tomlab released Worried Noodles, a double-CD of artists including David Byrne, Islands, Liars, Grizzly Bear, Mount Eerie, R. Stevie Moore and Final Fantasy putting Shrigley's 2005 book of the same name to music.

Voodoo Academy is a Horror / Fantasy movie, released in 2000, directed by David DeCoteau.

Fantasy Football League is a British television programme hosted by Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.

Fantasy writer David Chandler considered this " rise of ' Low Fantasy '" to reflect the contemporary reality of the War on Terror — characterized by " secret deals ", " vicious reprisals " and " sudden acts of terrifying carnage "— much as the horror genre reacted to the Vietnam War a generation earlier.