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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 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 author David A. Hargrave pays homage to Stafford in the Arduin series of supplements, the most widely know example of this being the Stafford's Star Bridge 9th-Level mage spell ( Arduin I, page 41 ).

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 )

In 1947, Bradbury wrote a short story titled " Bright Phoenix " ( later revised for publication in a 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ).

Bjo Trimble wrote letters to contacts in the National Fantasy Fan Foundation, asking people to organize their local friends to write to the network to demand the show remain on the air.

Max Bruch wrote a popular Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, César Franck wrote Les Djinns and Variations symphoniques, and Gabriel Fauré wrote a Ballade for piano and orchestra.

John Clute, for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ( in which capitalized typesetting represents literary themes and categories for that book ), wrote: " an ANIMAL FANTASY about a philosophical gull who is profoundly affected by FLYING, but who demands too much of his community and is cast out by it.

In 1981 Jackson and Livingstone co-wrote The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the first book in the Fighting Fantasy series, but following an instruction from publishers Penguin to write more books " as quickly as possible ", the pair wrote subsequent books separately.

In addition, Livingstone wrote another twelve Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, including The Forest of Doom, City of Thieves and Caverns of the Snow Witch before, in 2012, marking the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with a new gamebook, Blood of the Zombies ; the title was selected by a vote on the Fighting Fantasy website.

" For approximately three years ( 1947 – 50 ), Fox wrote for EC Comics, including scripts and text pieces which appeared in the famous The Crypt of Terror, The Vault of Horror and Weird Fantasy titles, as well as in the lesser-known Gunfighter, Happy Houlihans, Moon Girl, Saddle Justice and the new trend title Valor, among others.

Later that year, in the December issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction, Charles Beaumont wrote:

There have been other timpani concertos, notably, Philip Glass, considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, wrote a double concerto titled Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which features its soloists playing nine drums apiece.

In April 2009, Zenkat wrote on Freebase "... it is widely considered one of the most authoritative sources about Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror literature available on the Internet.

He also wrote a large amount of music for organ, including the Fantasy and Fugue on BACH.

Often called the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy by biographers such as J. M. Cornwell and organizations such as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Publishers Weekly, and Time, Andre Norton wrote novels for over 70 years.

He wrote several short stories, a few of which he submitted to major SF magazines of the day such as Galaxy, Worlds of If, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, though none were accepted for publication.

In 1997, John Grant wrote in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy that Cool World " stands as one of the fantastic cinema's most significant achievements, an instauration fantasy that reveals greater depths with each viewing.

He also wrote and illustrated a couple of adventures for the game Villains & Vigilantes for Fantasy Games Unlimited.

He is co-creator of the Fabled Lands series, and also wrote for the Virtual Reality, Blood Sword, and Golden Dragon series, as well as penning a single Fighting Fantasy gamebook, ( The Keep of the Lich Lord ) and a number of TV and movie novelizations.

Robin Anne Reid, in Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Overviews ( 2009 ) wrote that " Kesel's version of Batgirl established her as a character separate from Batman and Robin: a woman motivated to do what men do, but alone and in her own way.