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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 / 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.

In 2000, the British publisher Gollancz Science Fiction issued a two-volume, complete edition of Howard's Conan stories as part of its Fantasy Masterworks imprint, which including several stories that had never seen print in their original form.

Louhi was the main antagonist in the Finnish-Soviet film Sampo, and was also an inspiration for a foe of Conan the Barbarian's in the Marvel comics version of the character ( no such foe ever appears in Howard's stories ), the Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light boss character Louhi the Witch of the North, the Final Fantasy XI item Louhi's Mask, and the orchestral work Louhi by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.

* 1973-British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic ( Conan the Barbarian ) ( winner )

* 1974-British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic ( Conan the Barbarian ) ( winner )

* 1975-British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic ( The Savage Sword of Conan ) ( winner )

* 1976-British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic ( The Savage Sword of Conan ) ( winner )

* Richard, Adventure, and Fantasy are pursued briefly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles when Richard opens the hound's book.

The original version of the story was later rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp, into a different Conan story, and published in Fantasy Magazine for February 1953.

* The Conan Chronicles, Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon ; Fantasy Masterworks # 16 ( 2001 )

In early 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, and The Fantastic Four, creator Stan Lee devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, " The Mutants ", stating that readers would not know what a " mutant " was.

Uematsu joined Square ( later Square Enix ) in 1986, where he met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Another likely inspiration was Hayao Miyazaki's Horseclaws, which appear in the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and the anime film of the same name, which Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi once cited as an influence on his series.

He is world famous as the creator of the Final Fantasy series, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide.

In 2006, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the former designer and creator of the Final Fantasy series, recruited Amano and composer Nobuo Uematsu to work on video games at Mistwalker.

Lost Odyssey was produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the famed Final Fantasy series.

It was organised by Fantasy Advertiser creator Frank Dobson, still a comics dealer 40 years later.

He is the creator of the SaGa and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series of role-playing video games and is now an executive producer at Square Enix and the head of the company's Production Team 2.

Blue Dragon is based on a design by Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, who also supervised development and wrote the plot.